Question: What effect
does a course in basic grammar have on academic improvement?
Answer: “Concluded
that the teaching of basic grammar as a remedial device did not produce
significant improvement in English I
as measured by grade point average, nor did it improve students’ academic
performance in six selected subject areas of later study as measured by grade
point average.” DF Lovejoy. 1974. P. 418.
Comment: Set up grammar as a straw man. Why would
improvement in basic grammar improve over-all academic performance in any
subject? Courses are not measured by grammar alone. RayS.
Title: “Annotated
Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English: January 1, 1974 to June
30, 1974.” Daniel J Dieterich. Research
in the Teaching of English (Winter
1974), 396-422.
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