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Teaching Beliefs In Language Teaching

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Since the last decade, teachers ' held beliefs and pedagogical knowledge have become the most popular topic in the field of language teaching research. Understanding their beliefs is imperative for improving the educational process as a whole (Lumpe, Haney&Czeniak, 1998; Tobin, Tippins, &Gallard, 1994). Rios (1996) views that teacher 's beliefs and practices interact and influence one another. According to (OECD, 2009) teachers ' beliefs, practices and attitudes should be considered in order to improve educational process. Therefore, this present study aims to provide a micro-examination of the interconnection between Egyptian English language secondary school teachers ' beliefs and their actual grammar instruction along with the …show more content…

According to (Borg, 2001 ) Teachers ' beliefs refer to teachers ' pedagogical beliefs, or those beliefs of relevance to an individual 's teaching, and they influence how a teacher perceive teaching events and make his teaching decisions (Wood,1996). Whilst, Han Han (2009) viewed teachers; beliefs as a cluster of beliefs with in a belief system, including the understandings, assumptions, and propositions about teaching, learning, students, and subject knowledge that teachers believe are true. The diversity of terminology indicates that teachers’ beliefs are embodied in different complex forms and content and on …show more content…

The researcher operationally defines instructional strategy as the general components of instructional materials, practices and the procedures will be used with those materials to elicit particular learning outcomes.

Grammar: Grammar is defined as the description of certain organizing aspects of particular language such as phonological (sounds), morphological (word composition) and syntactic (sentence composition) points (Hill,1993). Subsequently ,grammar can be described as the business of taking a language into pieces to see how it works (Crystal,1996). In this respect, Koutsoudas ( 1966) assumes that grammar is the description of the way a language works. In the present study, the researcher defines grammar as the study of a fixed set of words and forms to grasp the meaning these forms convey.

Instructional strategies of grammar:
They are strategies used by the teacher to present grammatical structures mostly associated with contextual teaching

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