Problems in Teaching Grammar to English Learners at Secondary Level

Abstract

The study highlights the problems in teaching English grammar to the secondary school learners. The objectives of the study; to identify the various problems of teaching English grammar to secondary school students; to explore the ways and means for the improvement of the teaching of English grammar to secondary school students; to sort out the solutions for the problems that hinder in teaching English grammar to secondary school students. The researchers used the quantitative research method for the study and the study was descriptive in nature. All the secondary school English teachers in public schools are the population of the study in district Vehari. For the selection of sample, the researcher used the simple random sampling technique. The researchers adopt a standard questionnaire (Alam, 2005) and set the 9 sub-scale items for the research tool. For primary data collection, the researchers visited the sample personally and administered the questionnaire to the sample of the study as much as 150 secondary school teachers. Statistical techniques of percentage, mean score and standard deviation used for getting the results. Findings of the study concluded that teachers who teach English to the secondary school students are not fully satisfied with their teaching of English grammar that’s because they have no specialization in English language. On the other way, teachers are not trained to teach English grammar at secondary level. The study also revealed that from the use of audio lingual method English teachers can get better results. The teachers have perception that English grammar is not easy to teach. It may also be recommended that teachers have special trainings to motivate the secondary school students toward learning English grammar as well as English language. The study may recommend the teachers have motivation to prepare the grammar lesson before teaching to the secondary school students.