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The interest in Pedagogical Grammars or Grammar (PG) reflects a growing sensitivity to the role which grammars play at the point of interaction between the learner, the material to be learned, and the teacher. Among the issues which engage the attention of applied linguists and teachers are whether PG should be descriptive or prescriptive, the proper relation between PG and other kinds of grammar, the psycholinguistic foundations for learning via explicit grammar teaching, the nature and choice of the object to be taught (linguistic selection), and the macro- and micro organization of a grammar. Attention has to be divided between what people argue ought to be done (theory), what people do in practice, and attempts to answer the above questions empirically (research) (see reviews by Shirai and by Schachter in Volume 4).
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Walmsley, J. (1997). Pedagogical Grammar: From Prescriptive to Descriptive. In: Van Lier, L., Corson, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4533-6_2
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