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[Wolf]

Opps. Consider mark missed.

No harm done! I can't possibly be the only teacher here fighting to imporve myself and my envoirnment (Sunaru's horn locking sessions, Roger's decision to try teaching kids, AKA and his own worry about clear communication, and let's not forget Dr. B and his quest to get us all thinking.)

I usually am up on getting gently ribbed. Actually, some of my classmates would often play a similar game. Sometimes we'd go around correcting each other's grammar, etc. It sure kept us on our toes (although it would get old fast, so we'd be careful to quit while we were ahead, so to speak.)

Okay, on to your regularly scheduled thread.

Further relevant thought:

When teaching grammar - and this is an oversimplification but bear with me it's late and the net cafe owner's giving me the eye - but we might want to focus on how to use grammar points and not what they're called.

Our students might not need to know what "metalanguage" et al are. My Japanese grammar terms are limited I think to noun "meishi", verb "doushi" and adjective "keiyoushi." But I can use the potential forms of Japanese verbs (dekiru, etc), for example, with little problem. I learned what they were, what they were for, but the main forcus was when I learned how to use them. And I beleive that this is the sort of thing that we might want to think about.

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[Debalky]

Bertrand,
I'm sure you're right about all the grammar issues you brought up in your post. How do you incorporate them into your classrooms? How do your students not hate you for boring them to death? Can you tell me what a typical class is like for you?

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[Cobra]

What? You actually expect Dr. B. to provide an answer to a serious question? What are you, daffy?