Exploring Methods and Teachers’ beliefs in Teaching Grammar in English Classrooms: Four Secondary Schools in Alamata Town in Focus

Abstract

The overall function of education is changing the behavior of the learners to make them play a proactive role in a changing world. If teachers are professionally competent, they will transmit knowledge, skills and attitudes. To strengthen this competency, the attention given to EFL teachers’ is paramount promising for their effective English language learning/teaching. Thus, this study aims at exploring the methods and teacher’ belief in teaching grammar. The study is descriptive in its design. Both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies were used. Based on convenience or available sampling techniques, 31 EFL teachers were selected as a sample in four secondary schools. The study also incorporated questionnaire, semi-structure interview and classroom observation as data gathering instruments. Out of 31 questionnaires distributed, all of them filled and were returned and analyzed using frequency counts and percentages having SPSS version 23 to process the data. The findings of the study revealed that majority of EFL teachers’ belief has an effect in teaching grammar in their actual classroom practice. It is also concluded that there is a strong relationship between teachers’ beliefs and their actual grammar teaching. Finally, it is recommend that timely, adequate and proper classroom observation should be arranged in the schools to guide EFL teachers on the right way. In addition, language development program for EFL teachers should be arranged so that teachers will have better exposure. Moreover, teachers should also pass through additional professional training to boost their effective and right way of teaching grammar in the actual classroom practices.