This is a message Bruce Despain has asked me to forward to the ATEG 
forum because he has difficulty at this time posting on the list.

Eduard 



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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:29:19 -0600
From: "Bruce Despain" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: The role of English teachers

Eduard,
 
Here are some comments you might want to post on the ATEG discussion 
list; my
mail there isn't going just now.
 
I wonder if the strong showing of Europeans in the description of 
English
grammar in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries might have been due 
to the
fact that Latin was the lingua-franca of the Middle Ages and part of 
the
instruction of so many of the educated in former years.  The Latin 
approach to
language has the advantage that many languages have be approached in 
the same
way.  Perhaps modern linguistics simply hasn't progressed far enough 
to overcome
this extreme bias.  Perhaps the best way for modern linguistics 
contribute is by
incremental insertions of insights into the curriculum.  
 
Bruce

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