The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of deductive instruction of grammar with input enhancement and without using input enhancement. It also explored the effectiveness of inductive instruction of grammar with input enhancement and without input enhancement among Iranian EFL learners. The participants were female intermediate-level students who were studying English a...

this study was an attempt to explore the beliefs of iranian efl teachers about the role of grammar in english language teaching in both state schools and private language institutes. data were collected through a questionnaire developed by burgess and etherington (2002), which consisted of 11 main subscales and was divided into two sections. the first section dealt with approaches to grammar te...

Article History The paper received on: 30/03/2014 Accepted after peer-review on: 13/05/2014 Published on: 01/06/2014 Teaching and learning a foreign language like English is not easy task. The situation become more difficult when the learners are primary school children and teaching and learning focus is grammar, an activity often regarded as ‘boring, ‘uninteresting’ and ‘’tedious’. However, on...

in recent years, the teaching of grammar and the importance attached to it has become a bone of contention among language teaching professionals. the emergence of the communicative approach (ca) in second or foreign language teaching has been one of the most important factors leading to this controversy. since the advent of ca in the second half of the 1970's grammar which had always occup...

The Grammar Translation Method and the Communicative Approach have both played important roles in grammar teaching. Which is better, the Grammar Translation Method or the Communicative Approach? This paper aims to compare the controllability and feasibility of these two approaches and find out which one is more suitable for grammar teaching in Taiwan. Two classes were selected and taught by the...

This study was an attempt to explore the beliefs of Iranian EFL teachers about the role of grammar in English language teaching in both state schools and private language institutes. Data were collected through a questionnaire developed by Burgess and Etherington (2002), which consisted of 11 main subscales and was divided into two sections. The first section dealt with approaches to grammar te...

Second language teachers are great consumers of grammar. They are mainly interested in pedagogical grammar, but they are generally unaware of the work of theoretical linguists, such as Chomsky and Halliday. Whereas Chomsky himself has never suggested in any way that his work might be of benefit to L2 teaching, Halliday and his many disciples, have. It seems odd that language teachers should cho...