Open AccessTeaching about grammaticality with online tools
Author(s) -
Beth Rapp Young
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
proceedings of the linguistic society of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2473-8689
DOI - 10.3765/plsa.v6i2.5109
Subject(s) - grammaticality , intuition , grammar , computer science , mathematics education , class (philosophy) , natural language processing , linguistics , artificial intelligence , psychology , cognitive science , philosophy
This paper describes an introductory online assignment for an upper-division grammar class that helps students overcome preconceived notions about grammaticality. In anonymous end-of-semester surveys, students often label this assignment “the discussion assignment that taught me the most.” This assignment helps students understand that their intuition, while useful, is not sufficient for recognizing grammatical utterances.