Instruments analysis
Yesenia Gpe. Domínguez Reyes
The first instrument is a Survey; this survey was applied to 5 students of each semester
(fourth, sixth and eighth) in order to know the Grammar knowledge that students have. The
main point of this Survey is to know if the students know what grammar is, as well as to
know if they think that have a Grammar workshop is a good idea to improve their
Grammar. In the following tables it is find the Survey questions with the answers of the
students.
In the table 4.1 it is found the first question and the answer of the students about Grammar,
as it can be seen most of students know that Grammar is related to Spelling, 4 students
think it is related to reading and 1 to Speaking.
Question 1
Grammar is
Spelling
10 students
(4 of eighth semester, 5 of
related to
fourth semester and one of
sixth semester)
Table 4.1 First question
Reading
4 students (3 of
sixth semester and
one of eighth
semester )
Speaking
One student
of eighth
semester
Listening
0
In the table 4.2 it is found the second question and the answer of the students about the
importance of Grammar; as it can be seen most of students think that Grammar is important
and only one student think that maybe is grammar important.
Question 2
Do you think Grammar is
important?
Yes
14
students
No
0
Not much
0
Maybe
1 student of sixth
semester
Table 4.2 Second question
In the table 4.3 it is found the third question and the answer of the students about if they
have grammatical problems; as it can be seen 8 students have grammatical problems, only
one student do not have grammatical problems, 4 do not have much grammatical problems
and 2 students sometimes make mistakes.
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Yesenia Gpe. Domínguez Reyes
Question 3
Do you have
grammatical
problems?
Yes
8 students (2 of
eighth semester, 3
of fourth semester
and 3 of sixth
semester)
No
1 student of
eighth
semester
Not much
4 students
(2 of fourth
semester, 1
of sixth and
1 of eighth
semester)
Sometimes
2 students
(one of sixth
and one of
eighth
semester)
Table 4.3 Third question
In the table 4.4 it is found the fourth question and the answer of the students about the
grammatical problems that they often make; as it can be seen 5 students have grammatical
problems with tenses, 2 with Spelling, 6 with pronunciation and only one student have all
of them.
Question 4
Which are the
grammatical problems
that you make often?
Tenses
5 students
(3 of eighth
semester and 2
of fourth
semester)
Spelling
2
students
of sixth
semester
Pronunciation
6 students (3 of
fourth semester
and 3 of sixth
semester)
All of them
1 student of
eighth semester
Table 4.4 Fourth question
In the table 4.5 it is found the fifth question and the answer of the students about if they
think grammar help they to have a good writing; as it can be seen 14 students think
grammar improve
Question 5
Yes
No Not much
Maybe
their writing and
14
0
0
1 student of
Does the Grammar
only one student
students
sixth
help you to have a
said maybe.
semester
good writing?
Table 4.5 Fifth question
Instruments analysis
Yesenia Gpe. Domínguez Reyes
In the table 4.6 it is found the sixth question and the answer of the students about if have
knowledge in grammar is important to write essays or thesis; as it can be seen 14 students
think it is important and only one student said maybe.
Question 6
Yes
Is it important to have 14 students
a
good
level
No
0
Not much
0
in
Maybe
1 student of
sixth
semester
Grammar to write an
essay or thesis?
Table 4.6 Sixth question
In the table 4.7 it is found the seventh question and the answer of the students about if it is
more important have a good writing or speaking, as it can be seen 1student said Writing, 1
said Speaking and most of them think both are important.
Question 7
Writing
Speaking
What
is
more 1 student of 1 student of
eighth
sixth semester
important to have a
semester
good writing or
Both
13
students
None
0
speaking?
Table 4.7 Seventh question
In the table 4.8 it is found the eighth question and the answer of the students about if they
practice their grammar, as it can be seen 3 students practice it, 6 said sometimes and most
of them do not practice their grammar.
Question 8
Yes
you practice 3 students
(1 of fourth
your
Grammar
semester
and 2 of
doing exercises?
sixth
semester)
Table 4.8 Eighth question
Do
No
0
Sometimes
6 students (3 of
eighth semester, 2 of
fourth semester and
1 of sixth semester)
Not much
6 students
(two students
of each
semester)
Instruments analysis
Yesenia Gpe. Domínguez Reyes
In the table 4.9 it is found the ninth question and the answer of the students about if they
think that have a grammar workshop could be a good idea, as it can be seen most of the
students agree, 1 said it would not be much important and 3 said maybe.
Question 9
Yes
Do you think is a 11
students
good idea to have a
No
0
Not much
1 student of sixth
semester
Maybe
3
students
Grammar workshop?
Table 4.9 Ninth question
In the table 4.1o it is found the tenth question and the answer of the students about if they
would attend to the grammar workshop, as it can be seen most of the students agree, 4 said
Question 10
Yes
No
Maybe
Could be maybe and 2
0
4 students (2
2 students students said
Would you attend 9 students
could be.
students of
of eight
to a Grammar
fourth
semester
semester and 2
workshop?
0f sixth
semester)
Table 4.10 Tenth question
The answers of the Survey was helpful in order to know the grammar knowledge students
have, it also was helpful to know the grammatical problems they have, as well as to know
their opinion about have a Grammar workshop which would be a great idea to help them to
improve their writing.
Instruments analysis
Yesenia Gpe. Domínguez Reyes
The main point of the second instrument (questionnaire) is to recognize the common
mistakes that students have, the questionnaire is about some sentences where the students
chose the correct answer.
Graph 4.1 Questionnaire results
Questionnaire Results
Verbs in third
person
6
30
Present
Perfect
40
Modal verbs
5
5
22
10
Prepositions
The questionnaire was applied to 8
students of Sixth Semester. As it can be
seen in the Graph 4.1 students do not have
problems with verbs in third person and
relatives pronouns. It was easy to students
answer the questions about these topics.
They have little problems with Future,
Present perfect, Prepositions and Modal
verbs. But with the other topics they had
serious problems, for example with the use
of Conditional and Phrasal verbs.
Phrasal verbs
Knowing the mistakes that they have it is
going to be prepare a new questionnaire
Conditionals
with the same topics and their English
teacher is going to pay attention to the
Relatives
pronouns
students and the teacher is going to
practice more with their grammar
exercises. Finally the second questionnaire
is going to be applying in order to know the learning of the students as well as their
improvement.
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