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"Grammar instruction should be tailor-made to meet the needs of students, and should weave both prescriptive and descriptive practices into relevant, meaningful instruction. Standards and Pre-Assessment Sound instructional practice begins with assessment and planning. Begin building your grammar instruction plan by comparing what students must know with what they already know. "

tips for parents; devlarative vs procedural knowledge

"In determining how much grammar to teach explicitly, how much accuracy to demand, and at what stages and in what contexts, we should take our inspiration from the decisions we make in our private lives: one size does not fit all. Teachers must juggle three important elements: (1) the goal of instruction / time for instruction, (2) the structure of the target language, and (3) the style of the learner. These factors rarely line up neatly, which is why after hundreds of studies and dozens of hypotheses, we're still debating. "