A pile of bricks. That is what grammar teachers inflict on their students when they don't present the whole building to their students from the

When the bricks are presented from the beginning of the program of study via sound and thus as integrated and contiguous pieces of the overall

By the time each batch of bricks is labeled and "understood" by the class (as evidenced by the bogus test), as in the case of the

As Krashen says in Foreign Language Education - The Easy Way:

Now that my vision is finally clear about this topic of grammar acquisition, I can see that, when the kids translate a reading text and,

Showing the kids how the relative pronoun bricks and all those other bricks fit together is a waste of time. It's all done in English.

In the past century, teachers would take a batch of bricks, grammar points arranged in chapters in books, and, laboriously, each day, boldly, inflict a