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"Being unaware of the actual role of the grammatical system in language and its contribution to the creative use of language, students adopt a passive attitude in grammar courses and behave like tape-recorders: throughout the year they record the teacher’s lectures, and at the end of the year they try to reproduce it all mechanically but don’t really understand the contents."
http://www.beaugrande.com/Slovenia%2016%20to%2019.htm
"Being unaware of the actual role of the grammatical system in language and its contribution to the creative use of language, students adopt a passive attitude in grammar courses and behave like tape-recorders: throughout the year they record the teacher’s lectures, and at the end of the year they try to reproduce it all mechanically but don’t really understand the contents."
http://www.beaugrande.com/Slovenia%2016%20to%2019.htm