5.2 Further Research
Further research is needed in the field of grammar teaching. It would be valuable to
investigate teachers’ and pupils’ views and opinions on grammar teaching, as it is they who
use the textbooks and the grammar tasks in the EFL classroom. Their experiences, both
challenges and successes with grammar teaching, could give valuable insight into grammar
teaching practice. It would also be of interest to observe grammar teaching in practice through
classroom research. This could give insight into how the textbooks and the tasks influence the
teaching, to what extent they are applied in the teaching, in which ways grammar is presented
by the teacher, and in which manner the pupils actually work with grammar. Further research
could also be conducted on grammar in textbooks; there are for example other textbooks than
the ones included in my study that need to be investigated. There are also resources for
grammar teaching and learning on the Internet, and it would be of interest to examine whether
these approach grammar differently than the textbooks. I have examined some aspects of
grammar tasks, but other aspects should be examined as well, such as what grammatical items
are included in the textbooks; and whether there is a correlation between grammatical topic
and how it is approached (e.g. it seems that some grammatical topics are typically approached
in a traditional manner, whereas other grammatical topics are easier to approach
communicatively).