TEACHING ENGLISH GRAMMAR USING INTERNET RESOURCES

Abstract

This paper focuses on revealing the current situation of using Internet resources to teach English grammar in Kazakhstan’s schools. The purpose of the study is to investigate the efficiency of using internet grammar resources and the obstacles students encountered during online learning due to COVID-19, so as to help teachers to be familiar with, prevent and improve. This paper proposes a hypothesis: if teachers use Internet resources when teaching English grammar, then Internet resources can help teachers improve students' grammar skills and knowledge and have more advantages than traditional language teaching. This research is divided into three stages, using mixed research methodology (it involves collecting, analyzing and integrating quantitative and qualitative methods). The subjects of this research are fifty school students and nineteen school English teachers. The results show that schoolteachers do not use internet grammar resources in English lessons, while students use it by themselves for additional practice. In addition, the findings represent that it is effective to teach students by using internet grammar resources and it improves their grammar knowledge and skills. This work revealed the obstacles that students met during studying online and the contribution of these results will help teachers and educational system to avoid them in the future or to turn those problems into advantages to rise the effectiveness of online studying.