This is a somewhat belated reaction to Catherine Walter's article which appeared in the Learning English section of Guardian last
autumn. Click here to read it.
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Language or maths?
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Dr Catherine Walter’s article
Time to
stop avoiding grammar rules defends explicit
grammar teaching in EFL. Proudly subtitled
The evidence is now in: the
explicit teaching of grammar rules leads to better learning, the article
makes numerous references to a "wide range of studies" that have
shown evidence of effectiveness of explicit grammar teaching.