Universite d’antananarivo ecole normale superieure

Table 2: The respondents' diploma

Diploma	Number of teachers	Percentage
Maitrise	4	15%
CAPEN	8	31%
Licence	13	50%
Other (DEA)	1	4%
TOTAL	26	100%

50%

4%
15%
31%


Maitrise CAPEN

Licence Other (DEA)

Figure 1: Graph representing the teachers' diploma

These results show that most of the teachers in the lycées that we have investigated graduated from the university, but not from the Ecole Normale. In other words, most of the teachers in these lycées did not follow teacher training as they hold the highest percentage in this graph (Licence and Maitrise). As a conclusion, it can be said that there are still less trained teachers in the lycées as they outnumber those who graduated from the teacher training college. That may have impact on their teaching because like any job in the world, teaching also requires training and proficiency.

Question 2: In your opinion, what is the objective of grammar teaching?

1. 
   To make students apply grammatical rules in their grammar exercises
   

2. 
   To make students write grammatically correct sentences in their writing tests
   

3. 
   To improve students’ ability to use grammatical rules in real life communication
   

4. 
   Others (please, specify)
   

We asked this question in order to have an overview on teachers’ aim when teaching grammar. In other words, this question is designed to know what the teachers really mean by teaching grammar. Actually, the answer varies from one teacher to another, and many teachers gave more than one answer. 9% of the answers say that the objective of grammar teaching is to make students apply grammatical rules in their grammar exercises. 36% think that the objective is to make students write grammatically correct sentences in their writing tests. Most of them (55%) agree that the ability to use grammatical rules in real life communication is the objective of grammar teaching.

55%


9%
36%

Application of grammatical rules in grammar exercises
Accuracy in writing tests

Ability to use grammatical rules in real life communication