Teaching grammar to students, particularly EFL students, should be in an interesting and fun way. Grammar instruction is often associated with teaching sentence structure and grammatical rules. In Indonesia, English teachers mostly teach grammar to their students by using a traditional approach. It is often seen as an outdated and ineffective approach since the teacher teaches the students traditional grammar which emphasizes on the teaching of the parts of speech or word classes and the grammar is often taught in large classes. According to Ellis (2006, p. 84), grammar teaching is broadly defined as an instructional technique that attracts students' attention to some specific grammatical form that aims to help them understand it metalinguistically and/or process it in comprehension. This notion indicates that it doesn't need to teach grammar in the traditional way where grammatical items are presented and practiced. Hence, the teachers should select a new and interesting approach to grammar instruction for EFL students which is associated with communicative skills, namely integrative grammar teaching. Although traditional grammar teaching is still widely used, integrative grammar teaching becomes an alternative grammar teaching model due to its benefits for EFL students.
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