Premium
Does teaching complex sentences have to be complicated? Lessons from children's online writing
Author(s) -
Kelly Alison,
Safford Kimberly
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.649
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1741-4369
pISSN - 1741-4350
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4369.2009.00501.x
Subject(s) - sentence , interactivity , grammar , event (particle physics) , linguistics , mathematics education , computer science , psychology , pedagogy , world wide web , artificial intelligence , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
This paper draws upon data from a research project, undertaken in 2 Year 6 classrooms during the 2006 World Cup, to analyse how children used complex sentence structures in their writing on a football web‐log. We explore how the confluence of a temporary, popular, global event and an online forum for communication created a moment of linguistic empowerment where pupils began to use high‐level forms of language, and we consider the implications of transience and interactivity for the teaching and learning of sentence grammar.