Communicative Grammar Teaching

The main objective of the study is to assess the communicative grammar teaching methods used by teachers in relation to the theory of communicative language teaching. Yirga Cheffe, Dilla, Cheleleketu and Gedeb Preparatory schools were selected as a study area. To select the subjects from students, systematic sampling technique was used. As to the teachers, all teachers who taught English in grade 11 were included in the study. The result of the study indicated that the teachers were teaching grammar deductively to explain the rules in the form of summary. The data also showed that the teachers were not frequently incorporating different grammar teaching techniques to contextualize the grammar lessons. In these schools, the de-contextualized and isolated nature of the tasks and lack of skill in some teachers were found to be the major hindering factors in implementing communicative grammar teaching. As a result, based on the result of the study, it is concluded that the teachers teach grammar explicitly. Finally, some recommendations were forwarded based on the main findings of the study.