On Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:21:43 -0500 JOANNE ZOLLER WAGNER said:
               Whether teachers choose to teach grammar explicitly or use
>a more inductive approach to teaching grammar, they can be sure that
>students' questions will abound.
 
I am sorry that this reply is a little late.  I think this is casting the need
for knowledge about grammar for teachers much too narrowly.  How can any
English language teacher, whether to native or non-native speakers, provide
assessment of a student's progress without knowledge of grammar?
 
Bob Yates, Central Missouri State University, [log in to unmask]