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Teaching-Learning Grammar via Cooperative Language Learning: Kombolcha Secondary School in Focus

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This study is mainly concerned with the assessing challenges English teachers of Kombolcha Secondary School face in teaching grammar through cooperative language learning with particular reference to, grade 9. The data was gathered by four data gathering instruments questionnaire, interview, classroom observation, and text analysis. The data, which were obtained through a close-ended questionnaire, were analyzed and interpreted in the quantitative method, whereas the data which were gathered through interviews and classroom observation were interpreted and analyzed in the qualitative method. Finding shows that lack of student centeredness, lack of being facilitators, inappropriateness of CLL in grammar teaching were the major factors that hamper teaching grammar using Cooperative Language Learning. All concerned bodies including teachers, students, society, Ministry of Education, and others should facilitate a condition to prepare supplementary materials which provide detailed information about cooperative activities in addition to textbooks; support might be in the form of finance to prepare other

Published in Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies (Volume 9, Issue 1)
DOI 10.11648/j.tecs.20240901.11
Page(s) 1-11
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Keywords

Grammar, Cooperative, Language, Learning, Teaching

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  • English Language and Literature Department, Oda Bultum University, Chiro, Ethiopia

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