Designing a remedial course in grammar for English students at the university of the North

Abstract

The English department at the University of the North currently has more than four thousand students who are enrolled for English as a second language in the academic undergraduate programme. These students show a general lack of written and spoken proficiency in the English language, especially grammar. This state of affairs is a direct consequence of the poor standard of' education that these students receive in secondary schools in the Department of Education and Training. Poorly educated students present a problem in the classroom because their grammatical ability is central to their use of language and this affects) their overall performance in all other aspects of language and literature.