Teachers’ and students’ views on grammar presentation in the course book “English for chemical engineering” at Sao Do University

Abstract

It is clear that the development of language teaching, especially grammar teaching has brought about great challenges in teaching English in all Vietnamese schools in general and at Sao Do University in particular. However, the way teachers teach grammar and the way students learn grammar are not similar. This study was conducted to seek answers to the question of what teachers’ and students’ view toward grammar presentation in the course book “English for Chemical engineering” at Sao Do University. The finding from the study indicated that a balanced between explicit instruction in which a target form is presented formally together with information about how it is used, followed by practice and implicit instruction in which students’ attention may be drawn to a target form and they may be have to induce the rule or system underlying its use should be encouraged. In other words, a blend of both traditional and communicative approaches to grammar could be a good solution to the question of grammar teaching at our university. This study is nothing but a first step towards a more rigorous study of the issue of the grammar teaching at our university and other training centers where English is taught as a curriculum subject.