Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Principles and Foundations of Grammar Teaching. The importance of the discourse level in understanding and teaching English grammar / Marianne Celce-Murica -- Teaching grammar: English as an international language / Sandra Lee McKay -- Using corpus linguistics to improve the teaching of grammar / Susan Conrad -- Grammar in the student books vs. grammar that students need: which grammar to include, which grammar to omit / Keith S. Folse -- Functional approaches to teaching grammar in the second language classroom / Anne Burns -- Part II. Strategies. Grammar practice / Penny Ur -- Grammar teaching as consciousness raising / Rod Ellis -- 12 principles of grammar instruction / Jack C. Richards and Randi Reppen -- Practical grammar teaching: grammar constructions and their relatives / Eli Hinkel -- Part III. Grammar for Productive Skills: Speaking and Writing. Teaching grammar at the advanced level / Michael J. McCarthy -- Promoting grammar and language development in the writing class: why, what, how, and when / Dana R. Ferris -- Writing with attitude: conveying a stance in academic texts / Ken Hyland.