Effective Strategies and Techniques for Communicative Grammar Teaching

Abstract

One of the most crucial aspects of learning a language is mastering grammar. grammar demonstrates the core concepts and frameworks for creating words and sentences. It also plays a significant role in helping EFL learners produce words and construct sentences in English. Extensive research suggests that learners who get explicit grammar instruction in language learning classrooms that use the communicative language teaching (CLT) approach are better able to understand particular syntactic aspects of the target language. This research aims to examine the communicative grammar teaching techniques and strat-egies. First it questions and examines the extent of communicative grammar and its ben-efits, second the applied of these methods, third the difficulties that teachers and learners face while using communicative grammar techniques in EFL classroom contexts. This study was conducted through a questionnaire to 30 EFL learners in English department Ibn khalduon university in Tiaret and an organized interview with 5 teachers from Ibn Khaldoun university in Tiaret. The entire research process was based on qualitative and quantitative methods for data analysis. The findings revealed that communicative gram-mar methods improve learners’ skills and abilities such as in writing and speaking skills. Besides, both teachers and learners face some obstacles while the implementation of com-municative grammar method such as the lack of vocabulary, lack of confidence as they don’t have enough grasp of grammar. On this basis, teachers should apply communicative grammar through different type of activities and tasks such as role plays and dialogue to facilitate this method.