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]