The Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar

The Sixth Annual ATEG Conference (1995)

Program

Friday, July 28, 1995
10:00 "President's Remarks" Martha Kolln (State College, PA)
10:30 "The Politics of Grammar" Sabah A. Salih (Bloomsburg, PA)
11:00 "(Still) trying to find an answer to the problem of 'error' in writing" William McCleary, (Livonia, NY)
11:30 "The Fate of 'he' or 'she' and 'her' or 'his' in a Non-Sexist World" (Cancelled) S. Ekema Agbaw, (Bloomsburg, PA)
12:00 Lunch -- Le Jeune Chef
1:30 "Grammar and Literacy: Embedding Outside Sources in Text" Jim Kenkel (Eastern Kentucky) & Robert Yates (Central Missouri)
2:00 "Teaching Grammar to Japanese College Students" (Cancelled) Julia Karet (Miyazaki, Japan)
2:30 "Creativity in Short Phrasing" Frank Peters (Bloomsburg, PA)
3:00 Break
3:15 "The Reading-Grammar Connection" Cornelia Paraskevas (Monmouth, OR)
3:45 "Using Humour and Creative Techniques to Teach Students the Common Sense of Formal English" Stephane Dunn (Granger, IN)
4:15 "The Nine-Question Method of Teaching Grammar" Glenn Swetman (Biloxi, MS)
4:45 Dinner Break
7:00 Business Meeting
8:00 Publishing Session

Saturday, July 29
9:00 "Simplifying Tree Structures in the Grammar Classroom" R.A. Buck (Charleston, IL)
9:30 "Teaching Grammar Through Technical Documents" Jim Brosnan (Providence, RI)
10:00 Break
10:15 "Grammar Textbooks" Cornelia Paraskevas (Monmouth, OR)
10:45 "Syntax Book Reviews: What Should be Covered?" Audrey Caldwell (Shillington, PA)
11:15 "Proposal for an Official ATEG Bibliographer" Delma McLeod-Porter (Lake Charles, LA)
11:45 Lunch
1:00 "A Hands-On Non-Traditional Grammar That's Fun" Anthony Hunter (Delhi, NY)
1:30 "Between Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Amplifying Clauses." Brock Haussamen (Bridgewater, NJ)
2:00 "Using Error Notebooks to Improve Grammar" James Boswell, Jr. (Harrisburg, PA)
2:30 Break
2:45 "To Pause, To Separate, To Terminate: A Prolegomena to Understanding Punctuation" Margaret Enright Wye (Kansas City, MO)
3:15 "Particle, Complement, and Phrasal Verb: Rethinking 'ON'" (Cancelled) Heping Zhao (Fullerton, CA):
3:45 "Surrealism and Grammar: Creatively Reinvigorating the Classroom" Kevin Griffith (Columbus, OH)
4:15 End of Conference

Carolyn G. Hartnett (Texas City, TX) was unable to attend, but her paper, "Functional Grammar for English (Not Latin)" was distributed at the conference and is included in the proceedings.