Investigating the Difficulties Faced by EFL Teachers in Teaching Grammar in Salahaldin Secondary Schools

Abstract

 This study aims at investigating the difficulties encountered by teachers in teaching grammar in Saladin secondary schools . 

The current study hypothesizes that most of English teachers use the traditional method of teaching and they don’t use communicative method in teaching grammar, and the second hypothesis is teachers who teach males students encounter more difficulties in teaching grammar than those who teach female students.

A questionnaire is designed to achieve the aims of the study . Data is collected and analyzed statistically.  Finally , the findings of  the study revealed that teachers of English who teach ‘English for Iraq’ series encounter various difficulties in teaching grammar  , and English teachers use the traditional way of teaching grammar (the structural method) ,and they don’t know how to teach grammar contextually.