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Caribbean Journal of Education

Pedagogical Beliefs and Choices in Communicative Language Teaching and Grammar Instruction: A Caribbean Focus

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105-146
Publication Date: 
July 2019
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Teachers’ pedagogical beliefs and their influence on grammar instruction has long been a controversial issue. For the present study a sample of Caribbean university instructors (n=10) of foreign language were consulted through questionnaires and open-ended interviews to investigate potential links between their fundamental pedagogical beliefs and the teaching strategies they chose to apply as they taught undergraduate students of a foreign language. The mixed-method findings suggest a correlation between the lecturers’ perceptions of communicative principles and the methods and strategies they implement while teaching grammar in a foreign language. In addition, their perceptions of knowledge of the grammar were found to influence their teaching style.

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