describe teaching is

This link was created in response to a student writing:

a large number of papers describe grammar teaching is an irreplaceable part in English language learning

The link is https://ske.li/describe_x_as and looks a bit like this:

 

Of course, describe isn’t the only verb that can be used here. Here is a concordance showing some other options https://ske.li/definedescribeas. It looks like this:

A different range of verbs revolving around see/view/regard also has this pattern with a similar meaning, as shown here https://ske.li/see_x_as. This concordance looks like this: