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.