grammar instruction

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Dear SEELANGers:

Last year Bill VanPatten and Wynne Wong published an article in the
Foreign Language Annals arguing that explicit grammar instruction
should not be a part of foreign language education.  A group of
Slavists and other scholars have published a counterpoint article,
arguing for the value of grammar instruction within a communicative
language program.  This piece has just been published in the latest
issue of Foreign Language Annals (37.1).

With best wishes,

Ben Rifkin

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Benjamin Rifkin
Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706 USA
Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic

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