Research Instrument – Questionnaire
Student and Teacher Difficulties with Grammar
These are questions about how students and teachers deal with grammar in the classroom. Please
indicate your agreement or disagreement with these statements: 5 means strongly agree, 4 means
agree, 3 means neither agree nor disagree, 2 disagree, 1 means strongly disagree!
Disagree Agree
No. Statement
1 2 3 4 5
My students find it difficult to transfer their grammatical
1.
knowledge into communicative language use.
My students are motivated by problem-solving
2.
techniques for learning grammar.
My students expect teachers to present grammar points
3.
explicitly
My students prefer to learn grammar from one sentence
4.
examples.
My students prefer to find matches between meaning and
5.
structure for themselves.
My students find it difficult to handle grammar presented
6.
within authentic texts.
My students find authentic texts difficult because of the
7.
wide variety of structures which appear.
My students find authentic texts difficult because they
8.
are too culture bound.
My students find authentic texts difficult because of the
9.
vocabulary used.
My students cannot find form-function matches in
10.
authentic texts without explicit direction from teachers.
Teachers find the use of authentic material too time-
11.
consuming.
Teachers find it difficult to produce tasks of a suitable
12.
level from authentic texts.
A lack of explicit grammar teaching leaves my students
13.
feeling insecure.
14. My students find grammatical terminology useful.
Teachers find it difficult to correct student errors of
15.
grammar within a written communicative context.
Teachers find it difficult to correct student errors of
16.
grammar within a spoken communicative context.
My students find it difficult to improve the accuracy of
17. their grammatical language within a totally
communicative writing activity.
My students find it difficult to improve the accuracy of
18. their grammatical language within a totally
communicative speaking activity.
My students find it difficult to use grammatical
19.
terminology.
My students are frustrated by problem-solving
20.
techniques for learning grammar.
Profile of Respondents:
Gender : Male Female
Level you teach English : Grades 4-6 Grades 7-9 Grades 10-12
Your qualification : Master’s Degree Bachelor’s Degree Diploma
Your experience : ≤ 5 years > 5 ≤ 10 years > 10 years