The Effect of Grammar Practice in Oral English Class

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(1)The Ef胎。t ofGrammar Practice in OraI Eng1ish Class. 専攻教科・領域教育学専攻コース言語系コース. 学籍番号 M09140H 氏名紅麗. This study examined the e揃ect of grammar. practice done in the experimental course were expected. practice in oral Eng1ish class．It aimed at improving the. to improve the students’spoken Eng1ish1. speakingabilityofco11egestudentsandraisingthe. A㏄ording to Larsen−Freeman（2003），grammar is. grammatica1awareness of students while speaking in. a ski11・It is very imp0111ant for an Eng1ish teacher to. EngIish．. teach students grammar as a skiIL SkiI1acquisition of. Many college students who1eam English as a. grammar takes practicel The practice does not only. second Ianguage speak poorly in accurate and. mean writing Practice，it contains ora玉practice，too・．It is. appropriate English．They have leamed some ru1es of. cIear that there is an overlap between grammar of. grammar in junior and senior high schooL And whHe. wri脆n sentences and grammar of speech−Grammar｛s. they remember well the mles of Eng1ish grammar，they. able to account for spoken discourse．In this study，the. s舳speak poorly．When they are asked to answer some. researcher emphasized more the ski11 acquisition of. questiOns Or tO give a presentation in English，they can. discourse grammar and focused on practice in speaking．. only use some Enghsb words to express themselves，or. How does a teacher make the ouΦut practice. even if they speak in sentences，they o丹en make. e脆。t on students？In other words，how does a teacher. mistakes；㎞r examp1e，they oien use the verbs in. make the practice in speaking meaning冊1？To answer. origina1form to express things in the past，. these questions，the researcher organized fbur activities. In order to improve this condition，in other words，. in the experimenta1course to validate the effect of the. to improve the speaking abi1ity of coHege students and. grammar practi㏄p1anned in the activities．Eighteen. raise the grammatical awareness while speaking in. col−ege students took this experimental course during. English to put the grammar㎞ow1edge to use，the. their regu1ar school days．It contained the fonowing. researcher implemented the experimental course whi1e. steps，First，four topics in the textbook were chosen and. teaching the college oral Eng1ish class−In this course，. for every topic，the apPlicab1e grammar items were. the appIicable grammar practice basing on the contents. decided based on the contents of the textbo6k．As. of the oral textbook was done by the students，and. ㎞own，the contents of an oral textbook is well. according to the characteristics ofthe grammatical items. considered in grammaticaけ。m and the textbooks. chosen，dif胎rent methods were adopted to ask the. contain exercises to practice grammar，but it seems. students to do the grammar practice in group activities．. insufficient to make students have grammaticaI. As a resu1t of the study，the methods of the grammar. awareness whi1e speaking in English．And in三usual. 一272一.

(2) oral EngIish dass，there is almost no explanation of. the experirnenta1course．. grammar ru1es to the students，nor any exercises focused. By comparing the content of the two. on practicing grammar，As a new challenge in oral. presentations，and comparing the answers ofeach to the. Eng1ish class，in this experimental course，while doing. integrative test，it showed that the number ofthe correct，. the exercises in the textbook，particular grammatical. grammatical senten㏄s，especially ofthe grammar items. explanations and special grammar practice were added．. trained during the experimental process，increased a丘er. 丁兵en，with an emphasis on making the grammar. the grammar practice−The data resu1ts of the students’. practice meaning∼1，according to the characteristics of. assessment indicated that most students （88％）. the grammar items chosen in the four topics，four. responded they had undoubtedly cared more about. methods were adopted and according to every method，. speaking grammatica11y，especially in the correct tenses. the students were asked to do the grammar practice in. more than previous1y over the experimental course．All. pair work，group work，etc，to practice verb tenses，. the data results showed that the grammar practice in. direct questions and indirect statements，It took about. speaking done in this study had an effect on the students. three months to be completed in class．In order to. and the students had reduced the number ofelT0rs made. validate the effect of the grammar practice in every. in speaking，although there were sti11 severa11imitations. method，the students were asked to give a presentation. to this study−Nonetheless it suggests that the students. on the same topic decided be危re and aier the grammar. can improve their speaking in English t㎞oughout the. practice，without any writing preparation，AH the. grammar practice in oral English c1ass−. presentations by the students were recorded and the data. Based on the data results，several conclusions can. were co11ected and scored by the researcher．. be made舟。m this study．One m勾。r conclusion is that. In this study，the data were couected t11rough the. the speaking Ieve1of the students can be improved by. students’presentations，speaking tests and the students’. continuing to do grammar practice in oral English class，. assessment．Besides the data collection of the. even for those who1ack grammar in spoken Eng1ish．. presentations in the activities mentioned above，the data. Another conclusion is that grammar practice in oral. ofthe oral integrative testsεmd the students’assessment. English c1ass is an e脆。tive method for raising the. were collected as well to match to the answers of the. grammar awareness of students whi1e speaking．A third. research questions．Before and a丘er the experimenta正. concIusion is that it is necessary and important to train. 。ourse of grammar practice without any previous. college students to do more specia1ized gmmmar. i曲mi㎎，thestudentswereaskedtotakethesameoral. practice in oral English class．. integrative test whic11 contained three parts，The. 主任指導教員（今井裕之）. students’assessment was comp1eted at the conclusion of. 指導教員（今井裕之）. 273.

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