Have you read a hospital chart carefully?

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26. That's more true than many people assume. Imagine the confusion for ESL cohort anywhere and

everywhere and then turn that confusion into what it costs $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

I kind of blame the "learning style" craze. Not that learning style is irrelevant, just that students need a balance between, e.g., "I'm an aural learner" and learning by reading and writing.

Grammar also needs to be taught as it's own subject in order to get people to think about the logic of English. But no one will do this, because it's just too politically incorrect and "there's no market", i.e. markets DRIVE what is taught, rather than the worth of a particular content area in and of itself.