Teachers' and Students' Perceptions of Effective Grammar Teaching: Comparison of Ideas
| dc.contributor.advisor | Bogale, Berhanu (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Adem, Habtamu | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-11T07:12:41Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-09T04:04:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-03-11T07:12:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-09T04:04:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The disagreement among language teaching methods and the ill-defined guidelines on how to approach grammar has made grammar the subject of controversy (Ellis 1994). Teachers, therefore, are confused and have created their own personal approaches to grammar teaching. Their personal approaches mainly are deri1.!ed from their perceptions of grammar and grammar teaching (Borg 1999). Their perceptions inturn determine whether and how grammar should be taught (Rohani 2010). This study, therefore, explores and compares teachers' and students ' perceptions of effective grammar teaching. Three fundamental research questions are answered in this investigation. These are a} how do teachers perceive effective grammar teaching? b} how do students perceive . effective grammar teaching? And c} how do teachers perceive effective grammar teaching compared with students (or the other way round)? To answer these fundamental questions, descriptive survey study is employed. For this study, 13% (53 students) from the total population of 417 are randomly selected while all English teachers directly participated. Questionnaire is used as instrument of data collection. The questionnaire consisted of 22 restricted and 2 open-ended item are distributed to both teachers and students. Once data is gathered, descriptive statistics and description methods are employed to analyze it. T-test is also used to compare their perceptions and to uniierstand how much the difference is significant. The study finally finds that teachers perceive implicit approach as effective while students' perceptions go to explicit approach. The finding reveals the existence of significant difference in teachers' and students' perceptions of effective grammar teaching. In other words, teachers think they teach grammar best implicitly but students thinlc teachers best teach them grammar explicitly. The existence of mismatch in any aspect is a serious problem which can negatively affect teachers' teaching and students' learning (Nunan 1987 cited in Tolc 2010). Therefore, to better understand and solve the problem teachers and students may participate in an ongoing discussion. Further research also should be conducted on how they formulate their perceptions and the impact their perceptions have on their teaching and learning practices. Finally, possible ways should be explored to bridge the gap in teachers' and students ' perceptions. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/25402 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Effective Grammar Teaching | en_US |
| dc.title | Teachers' and Students' Perceptions of Effective Grammar Teaching: Comparison of Ideas | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |