The Impact of Explicit Grammar Instruction on EFL Learners’ Oral Communication Skills

Abstract

This study aims at investigating the impact of explicit grammar instruction on EFL learnerr’s oral communication skills; it also aims at discovering the least minimum amount of English language that EFL learners are exposed to, due to this explicit way of grammar instruction – which is-(A case study for the 3rd form Sudanese secondary schools students at WNS & KHs).The researcher follows the descriptive analytical approach; the population of the study are Sudanese secondary schools English teachers and the third form Sudanese secondary schools Ss, mainly third form (Ss), and the sample of the study is (100) secondary schools Sudanese students, and (60) English language teachers at Sudanese secondary schools, and the tools whereby the researcher collects the data are: (1) Teachers’ questionnaire (appendix A) (2) Learners’ questionnaire (appendix B) (3) Structured interview (appendix C) (4) Observation schedule (appendix D) This study includes five chapters which are: Chapter (1) is “Framework of the study”.. Chapter (2) is “literature review and previous studiesy”.. Chapter (3) is “Methodologyy”.. Chapter (4) is “Presentation and analysis of data of the researchy”.. Chapter (5) is Summary results, recommendations and suggestions for the further research”.The findings of this study shows that explicit grammar instruction has a negative effect on EFL learners’ oral communication skills, and it also exposes them to the least minimum amount of language to acquire.The study ends up with a list of a set of recommendations; hopefully that the policy makers could care for and take decisions about. The study also suggests some topics for further studies