Grammatical Competence of Selected Grade 11 Students: Basis for Proposed English Language Program

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Grammatical competence is a synthesis of an underlying system of understanding and skill needed for communication. In this study, it refers to the conscious or unconscious knowledge of an individual about language and about other aspects of language use. It is the ability to produce distinctive grammatical structures of a language and use them in communication.

METHODS

This study used an educational research employing a mixed method. The respondents were composed of 104 students from GAS and ICT strand of Grade 11. In this study, the student-respondents responded to a set of structures questionnaire through survey and interview. The result of the survey questionnaires was tallied, tabulated and analyzed. SPSS version 20 was used to generate results, tables and computed values.

RESULTS

It has been revealed that the students were exposed in the English language since they attend English class session in school. On the other hand, majority of the students were fair user of English and only small number of students were considered as very competent when it comes to grammatical use.

DISCUSSIONS

The results demonstrated that the students need more practice to improve their grammatical competence. The activities that can be proposed to improve the level of grammatical competence of the students were an English Language Program. The English language program was entitled "GRAMMAR" which means Grammatical competence Refining Augmentation; Measuring and Mounting the Ability of the students to build Rapport.