The primary focus of the teachers is on learning of grammatical structures, rules
rather than the usage. Any integration of skills was hardly observed. It is a
contradiction to Ellis (as cited in Mohammad, 2006) that in order to achieve
communicative competence, grammar and communication should have to be
integrated. Teachers think in accordance with Thornbury (1999 p.16 as cited in
Neupane) who suggested that learning English without learning grammar is “at the