Chill sent me this:
Hey Ben,
In case you have not had time to read the latest issue of ” Foreign Language Annals”, Vol 44, No 3, Fall 2011, I recommend an article entitled ” Grammar Teaching and Learning in L2: Necessary, but Boring?”
I quote: ” Finally, we wish to point out that our results confirm results presented in the report of the Canadian Parents of French (2004) mentioned earlier, which reported that students do not enjoy the study of grammar. The report partially blamed grammar instruction for lack of motivation among teenagers to learn an L2.”
“It was also disappointing to us that mechanical drills are the most familiar types of grammar exercise among high school students in a teaching context where government instructional guidelines have been considerably influenced by communicative, socio-constructivist, and competency-based approaches. Traditional teaching still seems to prevail in this context despite efforts to move away from it.”
Carol