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Project

Ethiopian EFL teachers’ beliefs and practice in grammar teaching: From an analysis of culturally grounded belief systems and epistemologies to recommendations for a linguistically informed pedagogy
Code
01W01316
Duration
01 October 2016 → 30 September 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Linguistics
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Other languages and literary studies
  • Social sciences
    • Education curriculum
    • Education systems
    • General pedagogical and educational sciences
    • Instructional sciences
    • Specialist studies in education
    • Other pedagogical and educational sciences
Keywords
English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ beliefs pedagogy
 
Project description

This project focuses on EFL in Ethiopian secondary schools, where English is the medium of instruction. It offers: (1) an analysis of teachers’ beliefs and practices with regard to grammar teaching; (2) recommendations for an adapted pedagogy, which starts from existing teachers’ beliefs and is founded in a functional linguistic theory in which ‘meaningful grammar’ plays a central role.