This workshop aims to promote open dialogue on current methods of grammar teaching, with special emphasis on experiences from Brazil and the UK. Organized through a partnership between researchers from various institutions in Brazil and the UK, the event seeks to unite educators and linguists who are interested in exploring new, critical, and inclusive ways to approach language, specifically grammar teaching and learning.
The sessions will explore how linguistic research can enhance classroom practice in several key areas relevant to teaching and learning grammar, including:
- Core linguistic areas such as semantics (the study and making of meaning), syntax and morphology (the structure of sentences and words)
- Multimodality
- Interaction
- Multilingualism
- Linguistic variation and language change
- Grammar in context
- Grammar from the point of view of various theoretical approaches, the links between linguistic theory and educational practice
- Decolonial approaches to teaching grammar
This workshop will be of interest to language teachers in primary, secondary and higher education, researchers, and other language practitioners, as well as students with an interest in teaching languages and/or linguistics.
Please register via this form by 26 November 2025. If you have any queries, please contact the organisers Dr Isis Barros or Prof. Sascha Stollhans.
Programme:
1 December 2025
Session 1 (4-5pm) – Linguistic theories and active methodologies
- Thomas Hammond & Clare Wright – Linguistic theories and grammar teaching: Two applications
- Eloisa Pilati – Active Linguistic Learning and Gramaticoteca: changing theoretical and methodological ways of teaching grammar
Session 2a (5-6pm) – Experimental approaches
- Marcus Maia – Eye-tracking Syntax in Language Education
Session 2b (5-6pm) – Metacognitive and semantic approaches to grammar in Basic Education
- Julio William Curvelo Barbosa – Linguistics-based teaching is not teaching Linguistics: towards metacognitive approaches for grammar teaching in the Brazilian educational context
- Thayse Letícia Ferreira – The place of Semantics in Basic Education: theory and practice
8 December 2025
Session 3 (4-5pm) – Multilingualism and intercultural perspectives
- Judith Eberharter – Dialects in German as a Foreign Language (DaF) Teaching: Application and (Language) Political Considerations
- Sávio Siqueira – Rethinking grammar teaching in EFL classrooms: Insights from an ELF-aware perspective
Session 4a (5-6pm) – Language variation and standards in teaching Portuguese
- Silvia Rodrigues Vieira – The concept of standard in perspective: the impact on the teaching of Portuguese
- Lanuza Lima – The Sociolinguistic Approach to the Teaching of Brazilian Portuguese: Morphosyntactic Variation in the Classroom
Session 4b (5-6pm) – Research-informed innovation in grammar teaching
- Michelle Sheehan, Alice Corr, Sascha Stollhans – How linguistics can support grammar teaching: the Linguistics in Modern Foreign Languages project and its implementation in the UK
- Ana Carolina de Castro – Active Language Learning and the Development of Technologies for Linguistic Assessment: The PREVIA Platform
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