I joke that it was beat into me from a young age!

My mother taught 8th grade language arts for 34 years.  She always felt grammar was important to teach.  When we moved to Alaska in 1981 her dept chairs refused to buy her grammar materials (the whole "research proves you don't have to teach grammar" thing).  She went home and began writing her own out of necessity. 

Fast forward to today.  We now sell her curriculum to public, charter, private, and home schools.  We even have a college edition!  It really has become a passion for me.

I bucked the idea for years that I would follow in Mom's footsteps.  Well ... here I am!  I own the company now and make my living running our company.  The international headquarters is my basement!

Erin
Analytical Grammar

From: David Kehe <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Fri, September 3, 2010 3:46:24 PM
Subject: intrinsic motivation for studying grammar

I imagine that most of us on this listserv have an intrinsic interest in studying grammar.  In other words, we study it just for the joy of it.  But why?  Is it in our DNA to find grammar so interesting?  Did someone, for example, a former teacher, do something that instilled in us this interest? 

I would be interested to hear from any of you why you like grammar so much and/or how you came to like it.  It seems that if we could figure out what makes it so interesting to some, we might be able to come up with ways that we could help our students develop an intrinsic motivation for studying it too.

Thanks,

David Kehe
Bellingham, WA

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