Exploring the Practice of Teaching Grammar in Grade 10 at Getachew Azanaw Secondary School
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2024-08
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Addis Abeba University
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The purpose of the study was to explore the practice of teaching grammar in grade10. It examined whether or not the teachers use different techniques and strategies in teaching grammar and motivate learners to use grammar activities properly. It also examined the reasons behind teachers’ use of preferred strategies to teach grammar in their classrooms and ascertained whether there was a gap between the expectations set for teachers and their actual implementation of teaching grammar or not. The study was employed in one government secondary school in Northern Ethiopia, Welkait woreda as a sample. The questionnaires were distributed by the researcher to 104 randomly selected students and 9 grade10 English language teachers in the school. In addition, five grade 10 English language teachers were observed to find out their actual implementation of teaching grammar in a classroom. The results of the study revealed that though the participants know the basic principles of grammar teaching in a proper way, teachers were not seen to apply them effectively in their classrooms. In other words there was incompatibility between what the teachers and the students believed about and the actual classroom application of grammar teaching. The data showed that the majority of the grammar lessons were not presented in meaningful contexts and situations. The students were not also encouraged to express their own feelings, attitudes and interests using the target structures. They were given the grammar rules explicitly with one or two examples. They also implemented several mechanical drills after detailed explanations rather than using the necessary techniques of teaching grammar. Besides, the classroom observations showed that teachers’ implementation of teaching grammar was given deductively. Consequently, the researcher has recommended some important solutions to make grammar teaching in an effective way.
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teaching grammar in grade10