School of Education, Culture and Communication Teaching Grammar in efl classrooms in Swedish Upper-Secondary School

Table of Contents
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Aim of the study 2
1.2 Research question 3
2 Background 3
2.1 Historical approaches to language teaching 3
2.2 The controversy in language teaching 4
2.2.1 Pros and cons of communicative approaches 5
2.2.2 Pros and cons of grammar-based approaches 7
2.3 Gender and foreign language acquisition 8
2.4 The Presentation-Practice-Production approach 9
2.5 The Grammar Consciousness-Raising approach 10
3 Method and material 11
3.1 Informants 12
3.2 Assessing the tests 13
3.2.1 The use of the “of-phrase” 13
3.2.2 Translation of answers in incorrect Swedish 14
3.3 Ethical aspects 14
4 Results and discussion 15
4.1 The PPP Approach 15
4.2 The GCR Approach 18
4.3 Comparison of PPP and GCR 20
4.4 Differences between genders 22
5 Conclusion 23
List of references 25
Appendices 27
Appendix 1 – Lesson plan for the PPP approach 27

Appendix 2 – Lesson plan for the GCR approach 28

Appendix 3 – Materials used for the PPP approach 29
Appendix 4 – Materials used for the GCR approach 31
Appendix 5 - Test on the genitive case 33