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# Review of Eli Hinkel (ed.), Teaching English Grammar to Speakers of Other Languages, Routledge, 2016.

**Authors:** Marie Møller Jensen · **Year:** 2016 · **Venue:** Globe 4 · **Licence:** [CC BY-NC-ND (journal licence per DOAJ; Globe)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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## Summary
Jensen reviews an edited Routledge volume, compiled by Eli Hinkel, on how to teach English grammar to learners of other languages. The book targets TESOL students at undergraduate and graduate level and also working teachers. It has 12 chapters in three parts. The first part covers foundations: discourse-level grammar, English as an international language, corpus-informed content, textbook coverage versus learner needs, and functional (Hallidayan) approaches. The second covers classroom strategies: practice design, consciousness raising, a set of instructional principles, and construction-based teaching of academic writing. The third covers grammar for speaking and writing: advanced-level syllabi, grammar in writing classes, and expressing stance in academic prose. The reviewer finds the volume engaging and practical. She points to its recurring study questions, discussion points, sample activities and reading lists. She singles out Hinkel's appendices of constructions and formulaic sequences as valuable for learners at every level. The review matters as a map of current applied-linguistics views on grammar: discourse-driven, corpus-aware, functional and construction-oriented.

## Key points
- The volume is part of Routledge's professional series devoted to ESL and applied linguistics, and it has 12 chapters in 3 parts.
- Contributors include Celce-Murcia, McKay, Conrad, Folse, Burns, Ur, Ellis, Richards & Reppen, Hinkel, McCarthy, Ferris and Hyland.
- Ellis separates three kinds of consciousness in learning (noticing, understanding, control) and links each to activity types.
- Hinkel's chapter adds two appendices of constructions and formulaic sequences. One covers spoken meeting participation and the other covers written academic English.
- Conrad and McCarthy base grammar content on corpus linguistics. Conrad also lists useful corpora and software, and McCarthy draws on studies of spoken grammar to outline an advanced syllabus.

## Interesting ideas
- Folse compares the grammar that textbooks cover with the grammar students actually need, which turns coverage into a deliberate include-or-omit choice.
- Hinkel treats academic writing as a stock of constructions and fixed multiword sequences, not as rules applied word by word.
- Hyland shows that writers signal attitude through hedges and first-person pronouns, even in genres where authors are told to stay invisible.
- Ellis's three levels of consciousness (noticing, understanding, control) form a graded scale of mastery tied to different tasks.
- Richards & Reppen recommend letting learner errors shape instruction.

## For Mova

How these ideas could serve Mova, our small open language model — its files, stages and tests:

- **I1** (learn): Rank which constructions to train and test by how often they occur in real text, not by how complete a grammar inventory looks.
- **I2** (tree): A curated lexicon of formulaic sequences could guide parsing of multiword expressions so that each one gets a consistent, explainable subtree.
- **I3** (frames): The prag crate could tag hedges and authorial "I/we" as stance markers on frames, separating asserted facts from tentative claims.
- **I4** (answer): Student-reader tests could be split into detecting a phenomenon, explaining it, and using it correctly, showing where a reader actually fails.
- **I5** (learn): Logged parse and answer errors could be grouped by type and fed into the self-induced repair-rule step as targeted training material.

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## Cite

Cite as: Marie Møller Jensen. 2016. Review of Eli Hinkel (ed.), Teaching English Grammar to Speakers of Other Languages, Routledge, 2016. Globe 4.

The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work.

```bibtex
@inproceedings{jensen2016review,
  title = {{Review of Eli Hinkel (ed.), Teaching English Grammar to Speakers of Other Languages, Routledge, 2016.}},
  author = {Marie Møller Jensen},
  booktitle = {Globe 4},
  year = {2016},
  doi = {10.5278/ojs.globe.v4i0.1641},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.globe.v4i0.1641}
}
```

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