2.2. Grammar in the Classroom
With the study of grammar being a 2,500 year-old enterprise, one might not
expect a fifty-year span of time to be all that fruitful in terms of altering the
scope and field of activity. Yet, that is precisely what has happened in the last
fifty years. Beginning in the late 1950s and extending into the present, the role
of grammar (be it for rhetorical persuasion or learning the “art of using words
properly”) has been significantly diminished and devalued.