In the teaching of foreign languages, after all attempts and reforms, understanding has been increasingly strengthened that without reliable linguistic knowledge it is impossible to achieve strong communication skills, which were considered goal grammatical skills play an important role in development language skills. The grammar languages ambiguous. Grammar are equally for speaking, writing, r...

This paper describes how a graduate course in multilingual grammar engineering has been used to inform the development of the LinGO Grammar Matrix. When the course was first taught (in 2004), the Grammar Matrix consisted only of the cross-linguistic core grammar. Over time, the lab instructions for the students in the course sparked the development of extensions to the Matrix providing ‘librari...