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Marginalizing grammar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

R. A. Buck
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Abstract

An account of how grammar is being marginalized in the American university English curriculum.

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Research Article
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English Today , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , October 1999 , pp. 31 - 35
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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