Search found 2 matches

by scmatsuura
Fri May 08, 2009 2:02 am
Forum: Applied Linguistics
Topic: Grammar Correction: Helpful or Harmful?
Replies: 6
Views: 3190

Steve Kaufman's blog is often interesting. He had a discussion about this on April 25th (if you scroll down on the link you'll see it). http://thelinguist.blogs.com/ woodcutter- thank you so much for that link. It was quite interesting. It seems that Steve (from thelinguist.blogs.com) believes that...
by scmatsuura
Fri May 08, 2009 1:04 am
Forum: Applied Linguistics
Topic: Grammar Correction: Helpful or Harmful?
Replies: 6
Views: 3190

Grammar Correction: Helpful or Harmful?

Hello All- I've been reading some very interesting articles by Dr. John Truscott and Dr. Dana Ferris. In Dr. Truscott's papers, he argues that grammar correction is unnecessary and even harmful to language learners. On the other hand, Dr. Ferris admits some forms of grammar correction are unproducti...