Grammar Teaching in EFL Classrooms: Teachers’ Attitudes and Beliefs

Grammar is now rehabilitated in language teaching and learning after years of debate and research on how best to teach grammar has produced a variety of options for the teachers to follow in their classrooms. The present study reports 30 Bangladeshi university EFL teachers’ attitudes towards grammar and its teaching and learning relating to those options. An analysis of their responses indicates that these teachers view grammar as an inseparable part of language teaching and learning and think that formal grammar instruction has a facilitative role in language learning. In teaching grammar, explicit grammar instruction and contextualized use of grammar within communicative activities are preferred and inductive approaches and correction of errors are considered effective and helpful by these teachers. Small class size, use of audio-visual materials and flexibility in teaching grammar are suggested by them for better results.