STUDENTS’ PRACTICE OF LEARNING ENGLISH GAMMAR; THE CASE OF GRADE 11STUDENTS AT KOMBOLCHA PREPARATORY SCHOOL, EAST HARARGE

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate students’ practice of learning English grammar with different approaches of teaching grammar the case of grade eleven students grammaticality Kombolcha Preparatory School. Quasi-experimental study was employed to achieve the research objectives and to address the research problem. Sample of 60 students and 4 English languages teachers were selected. The first groups of participants were grade 11 students made up of two intact classes, which were randomly assigned to the two classes: an experimental group and a control group. Experimental group was taught with Inductive approach while control group was taught with deductive approach along with lecture. Questionnaire, structured interview, and test were used to collect data. The results of the test were statistically analyzed using T-test. The t- test result showed similarity of values on students’ grammatical performance of pre-test and proved no significant difference at p>0.05. This implies the students’ grammatical performance was found to be equal before the treatment. However, the results of post-test revealed that students taught Inductive approach performed better than students taught by deductive approach. The finding implies the inductive approach had significant effect at 0.00*<0.05 in favor of the experimental on students’ grammatical performance of active and passive voice. This result suggested that the inductive approach was more effective than deductive one in teaching passive voices. Based on the findings, the study recommended that Inductive approach should be adopted in teachingofvoices