Grammar on the way back?
Paul Moses,
Baltimore Sun,
Jun 10, 2003
When teaching logic I found I had to first teach my students how to read. Oh sure, they could pronounce the words, but it was easy to tell with slight questioning that they had not understood what they had read: they couldn't identify the points made, and they couldn't identify the author's conclusion. As this article suggests, knowledge of sentence structures is important, and that is why the teaching of grammar is making a comeback. But more, knowledge of formalism - abstract structures - is important. Students should be able to see how abstract sentence structure, mathematics and computer programming are all the same sort of thing, and that this sort of thing can be applied in other domains.
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