Re:I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language
by Symbiote on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @07:39AM
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> No one knows grammatical terms, like preposition, person, the name of tenses, the subjunctive, or even simple ones like verbs, adjective, adverbs and nouns.
In England, most of these basic concepts are introduced in primary school. These terms are introduced in Year 2 (age 6-7): noun, noun phrase, statement, question, exclamation, command, compound, suffix, adjective, adverb, verb, tense (past, present), apostrophe, comma[1, p66].
How much grammar is taught has changed -- it's more now than it was in the 1990s or 2000s -- but certainly "simple ones like verbs, adjective, adverbs and nouns" have always been taught.
Children who paid no attention in English lessons should get a second opportunity to learn in modern language lessons (e.g. French).
A Danish language school I attended filtered people into "professional" and "non-professional" groups. The "professional" group saved time by assuming students understood "the subjunctive mood…" etc.
In England, most of these basic concepts are introduced in primary school. These terms are introduced in Year 2 (age 6-7): noun, noun phrase, statement, question, exclamation, command, compound, suffix, adjective, adverb, verb, tense (past, present), apostrophe, comma[1, p66].
How much grammar is taught has changed -- it's more now than it was in the 1990s or 2000s -- but certainly "simple ones like verbs, adjective, adverbs and nouns" have always been taught.
Children who paid no attention in English lessons should get a second opportunity to learn in modern language lessons (e.g. French).
A Danish language school I attended filtered people into "professional" and "non-professional" groups. The "professional" group saved time by assuming students understood "the subjunctive mood…" etc.
[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...