In a post several days ago, Craig wrote:

 I expect Bob will react angrily to the suggestion, but I also recommend
Schleppegrell's "The Language of Schooling." It also grows out of the
beleif that literacy can be disdcipline specific, that it can and
should be made more explicit, and that we have a mentoring role in the
process.

I have no idea what that means with regard to grammar. Craig wrote back offline the following:

Of course, the following is right.
>
>>>> <[log in to unmask]> 02/07/09 10:51 AM >>>
>    Your best chance of succeeding as a quantum physicist is to find a
> quantum physicist who will mentor you into the field. That is, in fact,
> what our curriculums are supposed to do, but don't always do well. What
> you need to be able to do is join in on the quantum physics
> conversation, which means a great deal of "shared knowledge" that you
> don't already have. You will run into sentences deeply packed with
> meaning and won't be able to process those meanings because you don't
> know what they presuppose that you know.
> ***
>
However, what does this have to do with grammar and, more specifically, grammar teaching?

 Bob Yates, University of Central Missouri

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