Pedagogical Grammar

Peter Master

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• 2003 Grammar Teaching in Teacher Education with Dilin Liu. (Alexandria, VA: TESOL), vi + 183 pp.
  
  
• 2017 Systems in English Grammar: An Introduction for Language Teachers, 2nd. Ed. (Kindle Direct Publishing), xxi + 488 pp.
  
  

Chapters

• 2005 The impact of information structure on ESL/EFL learner's accurate use of articles. In Holten, C. & Frodesen, J. (Eds.), The power of context in language teaching and learning (pp. 91-106). Boston: Heinle & Heinle.
  
  
• 2003 Grammatical problem solving in the MA TESOL pedagogical grammar course. In Liu, D. & Master, P. (Eds.) Grammar teaching in teacher education (pp. 137-149). Alexandria, VA: TESOL.
  
  
• 2001 Inanimate subjects with active verbs in scientific research articles. In Hewings, M (Ed.). Academic writing in context: Implications and applications. Papers in honour of Tony Dudley-Evans (pp. 169-181). Birmingham, UK: The University of Birmingham Press.
  
  
• 2000 Grammar in Content-Based Instruction. In Kasper, L. (Ed.) Content-Based College ESL Instruction. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  
  
• 1998 Let your subject do the work. In Master, P. & Brinton, D. (Eds.) New Ways in English for Specific Purposes (pp. 253-254). (Alexandria, VA: TESOL).
  
  
• 1995 Consciousness raising and article pedagogy. In Belcher, D. and Braine, G. (Eds.) Academic Writing in a Second Language: Essays on Research and Pedagogy (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing Co), pp. 183-204.
  
  
• 1995 Discussing disasters & Picture this: Gerunds and infinitives. In Pennington, M. (Ed.) New Ways in Teaching Grammar (Alexandria, VA: TESOL, Inc.), pp. 104-5 and 122-23.
  
  
• 1994 The effect of systematic instruction on learning the English article system. In Odlin, T. (Ed.) Perspectives on Pedagogical Grammar (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press), pp. 229-252.
  
  
• 1990a Teaching the English article system, Forum Anthology: Volume IV (1984-1988). (Washington DC: USIA). PDF File.

Refereed Journal Articles

• 2002 Information structure and article pedagogy. System 30,3:331-348.
  
  
• 1997 The English article system: Acquisition, function, and pedagogy. System 25,2:215-232.
  
  
• 1991a Inanimate subjects with active verbs in scientific prose. English for Specific Purposes 10,1:15-33.
  
  
• 1990b Teaching the English articles as a binary system. TESOL Quarterly 24, 2:461-478.
  
  
• 1987 Generic The in Scientific American. English for Specific Purposes 6, 3:165-186.
  
  

Reviews in Refereed Journals

• 1992d Review of Rutherford (1987) Second language grammar: Learning and teaching and Rutherford & Sharwood Smith (1988) Grammar and second language teaching: A book of readings. In TESOL Quarterly 26,4:749-752.
  
  
• 1990d Review of Celce-Murcia and Hilles (1988) Techniques and Resources in Teaching Grammar, TESOL Quarterly 24, 2:514-515.

Nonrefereed Publications

• 2007 Article errors and article choices. CATESOL Journal 19,1:107-131.
  
  
• 2003 Noun compounds and compressed definitions, English Teaching Forum 26,2: 2-7. PDF File
  
  
• 1990a Teaching the English article system, Forum Anthology: Volume IV (1984-1988). Washington DC: USIA. PDF File.
  
  
• 1988b Teaching the English article system (Part I: Countable/Uncountable and Indefinite/Definite Distinctions), English Teaching Forum 26,2: 2-7.
  
  
• 1988c Teaching the English article system (Part II: Generic vs. Specific), English Teaching Forum 26,3:18-25.
  
  
• 1986b Teaching the English article system to foreign technical writing students, The Technical Writing Teacher 13,3:203-210 [now Technical Communication Quarterly ].
  
  
• 1984a To teach or not to teach grammar, CATESOL News 16,1:12.
  
  

On-Line Newsletter Articles

• 2003 Pedagogical frameworks for learning the English article system, Applied Linguistics Forum News 24.1, November, 2003. PDF File.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

International

• 12/04/93 TESOL Conference, "Teaching the English Article System," Moscow, Russia.
  
  
• 09/27/90 Seventh Yugoslav Conference on ESP, "Grammar in EST," Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
  
  
• 04/04/87 USIS-TESL Conference, "The English Article System," Abha, Saudi Arabia.
  
  
• 03/16/83 TESOL Convention,"Teaching the Art of the Article," Toronto, Canada.
  
  

National/Regional

• 03/24/03 American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL),"The Effect of Pedagogy on Learning the English Article System," Arlington, VA.
  
  
• 03/28/96 TESOL Convention, "Article Errors and Article Choices," Chicago, IL.
  
  
• 03/27/96 TESOL Convention, "Grammar in ESP" (Breakfast Seminar: "Communicative Grammar Teaching" (with M. Celce-Murcia, UCLA, P. Byrd, Georgia State U., and E. Olshtain, Hebrew University), Chicago, IL.
  
  
• 03/30/95 TESOL Convention, "The English Article System: Acquisition, Function, and Pedagogy," Long Beach, CA.
  
  
• 03/09/94 TESOL Convention, "Consciousness Raising and Article Pedagogy" (Colloquium: "Academic Writing in a Second Language: Issues and Research" with D. Belcher, Ohio State, G. Braine, U. of Southern Alabama, U. Connor, IUPUI, A. Cumming, OISE, and I. Leki, U. of Tennessee), Baltimore, MD.
  
  
• 04/16/93 TESOL Convention, "Article Use in English: Research and Teaching Approaches," Atlanta, GA.
  
  
• 04/15/93 TESOL Convention, "A Contrastive Study of Determiner Usage in EST Research Articles," Atlanta, GA.
  
  
• 03/08/90 TESOL Convention, "Inanimate Subjects with Active Verbs in Scientific Prose," San Francisco, CA.
  
  
• 03/09/89 TESOL Convention,"Teaching the Articles as a Binary System," San Antonio, TX.
  
  
• 04/22/87 TESOL Convention, "The Mechanism of Noun Compounding," Miami, FL.
  
  

State

• 04/26/98 CATESOL State Conference,"Grammar in ESP," Colloquium: The Many Roles of Grammar in Communicative Language Teaching, with D. Brinton, UCLA, M. Celce-Murcia (Convener), UCLA, S. Hilles, CSU Pomona, C. Holten, UCLA, A. Strauch, and R. Young, Pasadena, CA.
  
  
• 04/03/92 CATESOL State Conference, "The Zero Article in English," Sacramento, CA.
  
  
• 04/14/84 CATESOL State Conference, "The Place of Grammar in the ESL Curriculum: Two Views," with M. Pennington (UCSB Extension), San Jose, CA.
  
  
• 04/16/83 CATESOL State Conference, "Teaching the Art of the Article," Los Angeles, CA.
  
  
• 03/12/82 CATESOL State Conference, "Grammatical Devices for Compressing Language in EST," Sacramento, CA.
  
  

Local

• 03/19/94 Saroyan CATESOL Conference, "The Physical, Abstract, and Metaphorical Uses of At, On and In ," Fresno, CA.
  
  
• 02/20/93 Central San Joaquin CATESOL Conference, "Grammar in the ESL Classroom," Fresno, CA.
  
  
• 11/15/86 CATESOL Regional Conference, "Teaching the English Article System," CSU Northridge, Northridge, CA.
  
  
• 10/24/81 CATESOL Regional Conference, "Grammatical Devices for Compressing Language in EST," College of Marin, Kentfield, CA.
  
  

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