LI Jinxi (1890–1978) has made pioneering contributions in both fields of modern Chinese grammar and language education in China. These two disciplines were closely linked in Li's studies. Li’s academic training was relatively distant from modern linguistics. Still, the national language movement in the early twentieth century prompted Li, as an officer of the Ministry of Education, ROC, to engage in modern Chinese grammar research, thereby finding a precise grammatical theoretical basis for the national language movement and national language education. The Sentence-based theory revealed in New Chinese Grammar is directly related to the actual needs of language education. Although Li’s grammar system has been criticized a lot, it still plays an important role in China’s primary and secondary school language education today.

黎锦熙在中国的现代汉语语法学和语文教育学两个领域都做出了开创性的贡献。这两个学科在黎锦熙这里是紧密联系在一起的。黎锦熙的求学历程和现代语言学比较疏远,但是,二十世纪初叶的国语运动,推动了作为教育部教科书编纂员的黎锦熙着手从事现代汉语语法研究,从而为国语运动以及国语教育寻找确切的语法学理论依据。《新著国语文法》中所揭示的“句本位”观念和语文教育的现实需求有着直接的关联。“黎派”语法尽管遭到不少批评,但在今天中国的中小学语文教育中依旧发挥重要作用,其原因便在于此。