The Effect of the Communicative Approach on Teaching Grammar to EFL Learners: A Case Study of Wad Babi Secondary School, Khartoum Sudan

All over the world, students are more or less the same with respect to their needs when they learn any foreign language. One need that seems a common denominator is the quest for learning the grammar of the foreign language. No aspect of language teaching and learning has been more controversial and debatable than that of grammar. Thornbury (199914) states that No other issue has so preoccupied theorists and practitioners as the grammar debate, and the history of language teaching is essentially the history of the claims and counterclaims for and against the teaching of grammar. Differences in attitude to the role of grammar underpin differences between methods, between teachers, and between learners.