Universite d’antananarivo ecole normale superieure

List of abbreviations:

EFL: English as a Foreign Language
TEFL: Teaching English as a Foreign Language
CLT: Communicative Language Teaching
etc: etcetera Eds: Editors T: Teacher S: Student Ss: Students

i.e. : that is to say

List of figures:

Figure 1 : Graph representing the teachers' diploma ……………………………………… 32 Figure 2 : Graph representing the objectives of grammar teaching…………………………33 Figure 3 : Graph representing the students' interest in learning grammar ………….. …. 34

Figure 4: Graph representing the reasons why students do not like grammar so much ……35 Figure 5: Graph representing the importance of integrating language skills in grammar … 37 Figure 6: Graph representing the most difficult conditional type for students ……………. 38 Figure 7: Graph representing students' main difficulty in learning conditional sentences …39

Figure 8: Graph representing the teachers' biggest problem in teaching conditional sentences…………………………………………………………………………………….40
Figure 9: Graph representing the techniques and activities of presenting a lesson on conditional sentences ………………………………………………………………………..42
Figure 10: Graph representing the activities during the production stage of a lesson on conditionals …………………………………………………………………………………43
Figure 11: Graph representing the teachers' opinions on the better language skill to improve the learning of conditional sentences ……………………………………………………….45
Figure 12: Graph representing the stage in which it is better to involve students in communication ………………………………………………………………………………46