ESP students’ views of ESL grammar learning
Grammar has always been viewed as playing an essential role in the success or failure of formal communication. This research will show that grammar education should be ‘descriptive’ rather than ‘prescriptive’ in order to offer students a set of choices to make them effective speakers and writers....
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| Language: | English |
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Penerbit UKM
2010
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2341/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2341/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2341/1/page1_21.pdf |
| Summary: | Grammar has always been viewed as playing an essential role in the success or failure of
formal communication. This research will show that grammar education should be
‘descriptive’ rather than ‘prescriptive’ in order to offer students a set of choices to make
them effective speakers and writers. The main objective of this study was twofold. First,
it focused on students’ views about a new grammar model that includes four stages:
confrontation, clarification, confirmation and consolidation (CCCC) and students’
perceptions regarding grammar learning in general. Second, it investigated the recurrent
patterns of interaction during the process of learning grammar within the framework of
the model. The subjects of this study were forty female students from three ESP for
education classes in the UAE University. Three research instruments (a questionnaire,
classroom observation notes and semi-structured interviews) were employed to establish
data triangulation and to attain validity. The results from the collective data demonstrated
that students had positive views about the use of the CCCC grammar model. Another
crucial result highlighted the students’ beliefs about the positive influence of explicit
grammar teaching on learning the conventions of sentences and utterances. Finally, the
study concluded with recommendations to direct future research. |
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