1.1.2. THE STUDENTS’ METHOD OF LEARNING ENGLISH GRAMMAR TABLE 2.A TH...

3.1.1.2. The students’ method of learning English grammar Table 2.a The students‟ preparation of grammar lessons before class Statements Always Sometimes Rarely Never Frequencies (f) 14 76 16 8 Percentages (%) 12 67 14 7 Figure 2.a

12%

14%

7%

AlwaysSometimesRarely

67%

Never As figures in table 2.a, a large number of the students (making up 67%) state that they sometimes prepare grammar lessons before going to the TOEIC classes and 14% is rarely and 7% is never whereas there are only 12% the students (equal to 14 students) always do. Therefore, these lessons that they didn‟t prepare reduce the language acquisition of the learners. Table 2.b The students‟ way of learning grammar structures Learning Trying to learn Doing examples, exercises all structures structures and Statements then inferring only only doing exercises its structures Frequencies (f) 61 26 17 10 Percentages (%) 53 23 15 9 22 Figure 2.b

15%

9%

53%

23%

Learning structures and doing exercisesTrying to learn all structures onlyDoing exercises onlyLearning examples, then inferring its structuresMore than haft of the student (accounting for 53%) study grammar structures in their TOEIC course books by learning the structures and doing exercises. There are 25% and 15% the students try to learn all of these only and doing exercises only respectively. However, just a few students (equal to 9%) have another learning method, learning examples, and then inferring their structures. In general, the way of both learning all structures only and doing exercises only make up to more than one third (38%). Table 2.c The students‟ systematization of grammar points Statements Yes Yes, but not often No Frequencies (f) 22 76 16 Percentages (%) 19 67 14 Figure 2.c

14%

19%

YesYes, but not oftenNoLooking at Figure 2.c, it is apparent that the number of students rarely systematizing grammar points is very high (making up 67%) while there is the low 23 number of the students (accounting for 19%) always making systematization. In addition, there are 14% the learners who never do, which affects directly and greatly their master of English grammar. Table 2.d The students‟ comparison and contrast of grammar points Statements Yes No Frequencies (f) 52 62 Percentages (%) 46 54 Figure 2.d

46%

54%

In general, the percentage of students who compare and contrast grammar points is nearly equal to that of students who do not apply the highly beneficial learning method. Nevertheless, there is the dominant of students (accounting for 54%) choosing Option 2, do not compare and contrast grammar points with it each other, to those (making up 46%) who do.