Seven Bad Reasons for Teaching Grammar (and a couple of good ones); A paper by Michael Swan

[@mesamies123]

Excellent! Thank you!

[@CzechWithMaja]

That was very interesting, thank you!

[@GaryThomasSNSEP]

Excellent. I should read the paper but probably won't get around to it. Thanks for the summary. I'm no fan of grammar but it is in all of my coursebooks. It absolutely doesn't work! I'm much more a fan of students communicating effectively with a few correctable mistakes. Thanks for sharing.