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Is the problem of poor grammar really a teaching method problem? Perhaps it should be a part of language teaching that there is a "spoken language" and a "written language". Spoken language also covers casual emails, texts, Twitter and so on, written language is what should be used for literature, essays, business letters.
People writing in the the Roman era often wrote in the then archaic Attic Greek as a way of showing how well educated and intellectual they were. I'm not proposing this should be done in English (!) but it does show that the human brain can certainly cope with a separate literary method of expression. Or do modern teachers think their pupils are so dumb that they couldn't cope with this? I sometimes suspect this is closer to the truth!
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