Abstract
This study is conducted to determine the effectiveness of teaching grammar-in-context to minimize students‘ grammatical errors in writing. The design of the study was a quasi-experimental with a non-randomized pretest-posttest control group. The samples of the study were taken from the population of the tenth-grade students. The control group was taught by conventional grammar which was separately given with writing skills. Likewise, the experimental one was treated by teaching grammar-in-context. The results of the study showed that the mean score in the post-test was higher than that in the pretest; and the mean score of experimental group increased 16.20 point after the treatment. This result indicated that teaching grammarin-context is considered to be effective in minimizing students‘ grammatical errors in writing.
Highlights
There is no doubt that writing is the most difficult skill for L2 learners to master
The experimental group was taught by using a method of teaching grammar-in-context integrated to writing skill, and the control group was taught by grammar in conventional technique separated from writing skill
The results show that the experimental group made less grammatical errors than the control one
Summary
There is no doubt that writing is the most difficult skill for L2 learners to master. The skill of composing English sentences is much determined by the ability of identifying or recognizing syntactic or writing units: the letter itself, word, phrase, and sentence (Shaw, 1986). The students cannot create correct writing if they do not master grammar. Gebhard (1996) asserts that teachers generally agree that beginning level EFL/ESL writers need to learn the basic conventions of writing that consists of letters, words, and JEELS, Volume 2, Number 2, November 2015 sentences. Because of the shortage of grammar knowledge, the students, even writers, still make many grammatical errors in their writing. It is reasonable that grammatical errors in the process of learning English as foreign language needs more attention to correct or, at least, reduce to minimum
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