Sunday, October 24, 2004, 06:07 GMT
I agree that rules are useful to explain good practice or good usage. However, I feel that learning rules as a goal of language learning is not as effective as reading and listening and increasing vocabulary. IN other words rules can be used to explain but should not be taught as subject matter. Any comments?
In particular I find learning to distinguish compound sentences from complex sentences or compound-complex sentences etc. , in other words the skill to be able to identity parts of speech or grammatical terms is particularly unhelpful in language learning. Comments please.
In particular I find learning to distinguish compound sentences from complex sentences or compound-complex sentences etc. , in other words the skill to be able to identity parts of speech or grammatical terms is particularly unhelpful in language learning. Comments please.