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Publication details [#40853]

McArthur, Tom. 2004. Singapore, grammar, and the teaching of ‘internationally acceptable English’. English Today 20 (4) : 13–19.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | foreign language teaching | grammar1 | international context | language of wider communication

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper discusses whether the 'internationally acceptable English' language skills of Singaporean school leavers could be bettered via a revival of explicit and formal grammar teaching.