The point that Robert makes concerning the inability some students have in
learning about grammar and then applying it, raises a fundamental problem
which partly explains the advocacy of the abolition of the teaching of
grammar. However, what the advocates failed to do was to demonstrate
empirically that such learners were able to learn more by means of
exposure - and, I might add, never have done. And then, of course, the
abolition of grammar teaching unnecessarily penalised those who could
benefit therefrom..
As to the so-called colleague who 'publicly' corrected Robert's grammar,
what can one say about such egregious behaviour. Typical I'm afraid of
pretentiously pedantic 'pedagogues'..
Ron Sheen.
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