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TEACHERS’ BELIEFS IN TEACHING GRAMMAR
Kristian Nugraha A
Abstract
There is no doubt that many educators teach grammar to the students is one of the major aspect
in language learning and teaching process. However, there aresome different beliefs in how
grammar need be teach to the students from teachers and experts.Some of these educators
believe in explicit grammar teaching while some others believe in implicit grammar teaching.
Hence, to respond such problem the researcher make this study to find about teachers’ beliefs in
teaching grammar. The research purpose is to find out about what is their purpose or reason in
teaching using one of particular way of teaching. In this aspect, the way of teaching will be
explicit and implicit grammar teaching. Ten teachers from Faculty of Language Literature
Universitas Kristen SatyaWacana, Salatigaare going to be interview with semi-structured
interview. The participants are teachers from English language education program and literature
program. The researcher will identified the reasons of one particular way of grammar teaching
itself and the two different beliefs based from the data,which gained from the participants. The
result show two different beliefs from participants with their own reasons. In addition, the
researcher found that most of the participants is in explicit grammar teaching side.
Key word: Belief, Grammar, Grammar Teaching, Explicit, Implicit