Have you ever been marked down for “grammatical errors”? — A linguist responds

Anne Curzan, a linguist at the University of Michigan, talks about marking students off for “grammatical errors”:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2013/08/14/dinging-for-grammatical-errors/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

This blog entry is part of “Lingua Franca” of the Chronicle of Higher Education, a blog with a number of good entries.