Approaches and methods to teach grammar: An analysis of the last 10 years

Abstract

The present synthesis aimed to discover whether there was an ideal methodological approach to teach grammar and what were the students’ perceptions towards it. Seventeen studies, which used different approaches and methods and occurred at different settings and levels, were gathered. Some of the analyzed studies compared and contrasted different approaches and methods. Thus, they provided a more precise idea about which one obtained the best outcome and the reasons why certain approach was more effective than the other. A criterion to select the studies was that they needed to be empirical in order to have a clearer idea of the impact of the approaches on the students. These studies were analyzed to determine which approaches and methods obtained the best results and to have a glance on the students’ views towards the methodological approaches. Apparently, there was not an approach or method that could be considered the best regarding grammar teaching, so the combination of various approaches and methods could be a possible solution to this. Further research was suggested on the use of the eclectic approach to teach grammar since it combines several approaches and methods.