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CALL, the foreign-language undergraduate and the teaching of grammar: a linguistic and political battlefield

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2011

Peter Metcalfe
Peter Metcalfe
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Open University, UK
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The recent history of the teaching of grammar, both for first- and second-language learning, has produced highly polarised and acrimonious debate. The repercussions have extended beyond the boundaries of linguistics into the social and political domain. The present generation of foreign-language undergraduates has been profoundly (if unknowingly) affected by this debate, as reflected in their approach to the learning of grammar, and any consideration of the methodology of language teaching, including that of CALL, must take account of it.

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ReCALL , Volume 4 , Issue 7 , November 1992 , pp. 3 - 5
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Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1992

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