LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 16:7 July 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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The Use of Task-based Grammar Teaching to Enhance Grammatical
Competence for Kachin Students in Myanmar

Kaw Mai, M.A. in TESOL

Abstract

This study implemented grammar teaching by using task-based teaching approach to improve grammatical competency for ten low intermediate Kachin students in Myanmar. The researcher collected the data by using multiple data collecting instruments. They are pre-test, post-test, and two formative assessments. The data obtained were analyzed quantitatively. After taking 32 hour long task-based grammar classes, the students’ grammatical competence resulted to be improved.

Keywords: Task-based grammar teaching, Grammatical competence

Introduction

Learning English has been a challenge for Myanmar students where English is a foreign language. Bianco (2013) describes Myanmar language setting as “multi-lingual education in ethnic minority languages, Myanmar (national language) and strategic foreign languages (English as a medium of instruction in grades 10 and 11)”. Myanmar students study English as a compulsory subject in all the government run schools in basic education schooling years. Tin (2014) briefed the history of English language in Myanmar as once the country was a British colony, English language played an important role for administration and education. However, after Myanmar gained independence in 1948, English was regarded as a foreign language in Myanmar. As English language proficiency gradually declined, by the policy set in 1981, Myanmar government made English became the instructional medium for science subjects and economic in secondary school and higher level of education in 1986-1987. Now English is a popular foreign language taught in private schools.

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