Lindemann chap. 5 Post #4

In the introduction to chapter 5, Lindemann talks about how native speakers' language comes to us intuitively, or subconsciously. As writing teachers we have a professional responsibility to know much more about language that our experience provides us. In other words, we must develop a conscious understanding of linguistic principles. This subject is quite profound to me (I know it seems obvious).one of my first classes at CSUDH, as an undergrad, was "syntax" with Wenzell, and she kept asking me why I chose such & such verb an form, etc. I could not come up with anything other than "it sounds right". A few years later I got a TESOL certificate and I realized just how much I didn't know about my own language. Well, now I definitely know more, but My students ask good questions ( they're in their 20's) and sometimes I have to give varying examples before learning the simplest way to explain an answer.