Evaluating the Implementation of Explicit Grammar

"Evaluating the Implementation of Explicit Grammatical Instruction: Chiang Mai City Schools," is an attempt to investigate the dilemma that characterises the learning of English in Thailand. The study in this book was done in the Thai northern city of Chiang Mai which is Thailand's second largest city. It is an open secret that whereas, Thais learn English over several years, a great majority of these learners dawdle and are known not to demonstrate the gains and benefits of the learning in written and spoken English both in the class-room and practically, outside it.The need to establish why the average long-term learners of English do not demonstrate accuracyand fluency inspired the research. It has been seen----even if peripherally---- that a great majority of Thai teachers of grammar do not follow the prescribed and suggested procedures of grammar teaching, and especially fail to take learners through the critical stage of "producing" learnt structures during or after lessons.