A student who is excellent in English told me this noon that she found her English has been getting worse since she started to pay more attention to grammar. She used to use her intuition to tell if a sentence is correct or not, but now she will think about the grammatical analysis we do in class when she is taking a test.
I remember a former student called me two or three weeks before the UEE this summer, telling me the same thing. At the time, she was reviewing the grammar book and she found she was losing her intuition about English.
Now here comes an intriguing question: Is grammar helpful or harmful?
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