Calling a Truce to the Grammar Wars. Content Area: Grammar.

The following was based on notes I took at the Tesol Convention in Philadelphia. 

Calling a Truce to the Grammar Wars. Content Area: Grammar.

T. Leo Schimitt, New York University, USA

Brian Skelton, Fox Valley Technical College, USA

Notes from the presentation:

Do students need grammar instruction? If so, in what capacity?

(Explicit vs. Implicit)

(Discrete vs. Integrated)

(Communit, IEP, Bussiness and industry, etc)

-         Context: Who, where and why

-         Comfort: What and where

-         Politics of language learning

-         Instructional preference

-         Assesment: Paper vs. IBT or TOEFL

-         Expectations of the institution

-         Knowledge of the instructor