Grammar is the heart of language: grammar and its role in language learning among Finnish university students

摘要: This article presents and discusses views on grammar its role in formal language learning amongst Finnish university students. The results are based a questionnaire which was distributed to students at the University of Jyvaskyla as part institutional action research. background project feeling some teachers increased divergence between student respectively teacher understandings teaching. concern raised need find out how view grammar. knowledge about thoughts would then help adjust adept way is used main finding that majority think valuable asset learning, but same time have somewhat different In this context understood metalinguistic set (also normative) statements regularities most Three perspectives distinguished. These include normative, functional structural perspective. Since all answers couldn’t be placed within these categories, fourth category, “other” also included.