Jane, Take the question of grammar in context and ask, "Grammar in whose
context?"--consider sociolinguistic issues before establishing your
question. (startperhaps with Brian V. Street's Social Literacies:
Critical Approaches toLiteracy in Development, Ethnography and Education. New Y
ork: Longman,
1995 and Keith Gilyard's Voices of the Self: A Study of Language
Competence. Detroit: Wayne State U. Press, 1991.