Investigating a Teacher’s Beliefs and Practices in Teaching Grammar: A Case Study of a Senior Teacher of English in a High School in Jakarta

What a teacher believes and does in grammar instruction is substantial issue that needs to be explored. Understanding the teacher's beliefs could facilitate better understanding of classroom practices and, eventually, nuances her student's performance. A few studies have been conducted on teaching Indonesian context. However, investigating senior are infrequent Indonesia. The has always controversial for language teachers L2/ EFL settings. main problem how should taught acquired. aim this study analyze relating grammar. data were gathered through an in-depth interview with observations. This research focused only female who English tens years high school environment. From observations, researcher obtained meaningful information from teacher, starting beginning teaching, then during Post Method phase, phase integration technology. interviews researchers can conclude shown consistency beliefs, several innovations while still adopting Deductive Method.