Aspects of teachers' reliance on English grammars and textbooks in teaching grammar

This graduation thesis deals with aspects of teachers’ reliance of grammars and textbooks when teaching grammar in the classroom, more specifically, with teachers in the third, fifth and seventh grade of primary school. First, readers will be presented with an outline of the literature related to the topic. The literature will be about grammar in general and its types, about foreign language teaching and its methods (mentioning the role of grammar in most methods), about teaching grammar, approaches to teaching grammar and types of practice and finally about previous research similar to the topic of the thesis. The next part, the case study, will provide the reader with information about the teachers, information about their primary teaching material, giving an analysis of the content of the student’s book and workbook, with an insight into their teaching practice based on lesson observation and into their own opinions about their teaching by analysing the conducted interview. In the last part the author will give a conclusion about the topic and the research and will try to emphasize the importance of the research for the improvement of grammar teaching in Croatian primary schools