Pre-Service Teachers’ Beliefs About EFL Grammar Learning And Teaching: A Survey Study

Abstract

Grammar is one of the important components in language learning. Teachers’ beliefs in teaching grammar play a significant role in the process of learning. Therefore, this research aims to identify pre-service teachers’ beliefs about EFL grammar learning and teaching. This study employed a survey design. There were 60 respondents in this study. The grammar knowledge, grammar learning, grammar teaching, and grammar testing questionnaire was adopted from Aleksandra Wach (2013) consisted of 26 items and used Likert scale points from 1-5 as the main instrument in data retrieval. The statistical significance level was set at .05. The alpha coefficient for the items was .836. To analyze the data SPSS and Microsoft Excel was applied. This study finds that the beliefs about grammar held by study participants were balanced with pre-service teachers, explicit teaching, and pre-service teacher development programs.