Formal grammar is not an effective way of teaching children to write, say researchers at the University of York. The government-funded study claims this resolves the longstanding debate as to whether ...

Formal grammar was taken out of the Australian curriculum in the mid-1970s – and some of us have catching up to do “It’s a special kind of person who attends this class on a weekend,” says our grammar ...

Schools are wasting their time teaching children the rules of English grammar because there is no evidence that it has any impact on pupils' writing skills, a government-funded study has concluded.