What is "grammaring"?

[M56]

I still don't see how it can be separated from the other skills, all of which require grammaring.

Doesn't one have to learn the skill of grammaring to the be able to deal with other skills? Isn't it chicken first?

[M56]

In a recent workshop, Larsen-Freeman talked about trying to avoid the "inert knowledge problem" in grammar teaching. Coming from outside grammar teaching, here is an example of how knowing the "rules" does not always mean that one can put them into practice:

A Question of How To Prevent the "Inert Knowledge Problem"

I student teach in a kindergarten classroom in the Yonkers Foxfire School. Even though I am there only one day a week, I consistently see children putting their hands all over each other after they just explained to me why they should not. After eight months of repeating the same conversation, I wonder where the meaning of our words gets filed in their little heads. I arrive by nine am and by nine thirty I have engaged in four different conversations. By ten am, I stand shaking my head as I watch our conversations float out the window with their screams.

http://pages.slc.edu/~ebj/minds/stud...the/link1.html

[Tdol]

Doesn't one have to learn the skill of grammaring to the be able to deal with other skills? Isn't it chicken first?

And like the chicken, it's hard to separate it from the egg in the process. No grammaring, no skills, but no skills, no grammaring.

[M56]

And like the chicken, it's hard to separate it from the egg in the process. No grammaring, no skills, but no skills, no grammaring.

True...
Just like Catch 22