Carolyn
 
I was an undergrad major in Government and Politics  and Criminal Justice.  
Neither content areas required grammar  instruction.  In fact, the first time I 
was required to take a grammar  class was when I was doing my Masters in 
TESOL.  I thank God for my sixth  grade teacher who believed in the importance of 
sentence diagramming.  Till  this day I have used that to help identify 
certain parts of a sentence.  I  applaud you for not introducing grammar as a 
separate field to your  students.  Grammar is part of every course because it aids 
in our  literacy.  It is not separated from any aspect of education.   
Unfortunately, too many people do not recognize the importance of it.  I am  not 
talking about prescriptive grammar but just the structural grammar so that  
students can understand the function of their language, whatever language that  may 
be.
 
Alison
 
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I  have ended up 
where I needed to be. " 
~ Kahlil Douglas  Adams

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