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Question 3: How do your students like grammar classes?

1. 
   Very much
   

2. 
   So so
   

3. 
   Not so much
   

In asking this question, we wanted to know how the students are interested in learning grammar. The result we obtained shows that only 8% of the teachers report that their students like grammar classes very much. Most of the teachers (69%) say their students’ interest in grammar classes is of average rate, and 23% claim that students do not like it so much. The following diagram shows the result clearer:

23%

8%


69%
Very much So so

Not so much

Figure 3: Graph representing the students' interest in learning grammar

The above graph shows that there are students who do not like grammar classes. We need to study the reason why it is so. That is the focus of the next question.

Question 4: If your answer to the 3^rd question is “not so much”, why do you think the students do not really like grammar?

1. 
   They see grammar as a matter of always applying rules
   

2. 
   The teacher does not know how to elicit
   

3. 
   They are not interested in the topics the teacher uses to introduce the lessons
   

4. 
   They do not have the opportunity to communicate during grammar classes
   

Our aim in asking this question is to know the reasons why students do not like grammar so much. Only ten (10) teachers answered this question. 40% of them claim that students are not interested in the topics the teacher uses to introduce the lessons. 60% affirm that students do not have the opportunity to communicate during grammar classes. No one says the reason is that students see grammar as a matter of always applying rules or that the teacher does not know how to elicit.

40%

Uninteresting topics to introduce the lessons

60%

Lack of opportunity to communicate during grammar classes