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Original research ATTITUDES TOWARDS GRAMMAR TEACHING METHODS USING A WIHIC QUESTIONNAIREPages 109-118 Abstract
This study is an investigation of university students’ attitudes towards three teaching methods (traditional, LdL [learning thought teaching] and a five-stage method by Willis, 2003). The study elaborates on the design, practices, advantages and disadvantages of the three methods, followed by an explanation of the aims and applicability of a WIHIC (What Is Happening In This Class?) questionnaire for testing participants’ views of the respective instructional method. The experiment was conducted with undergraduate students (N=77) majoring in English Language and Literature at the South East European University (SEEU), Tetovo, North Macedonia. The WIHIC questionnaire was administered upon completion of a 15-week training period during which the students were taught the English tense-aspect system in the above mentioned three teaching methods. The results were unanticipated to some extent and did not meet all of the expectations previously set concerning the students’ preferences of the three instructional settings. (This paper is a part of my PhD dissertation “The Effects of Teaching Methodology on the Acquisition, Retention and Integration of Tense Forms into Spontaneous Speech” completed in 2017 at the Department of English and Center for Teacher Education, University of Vienna, Austria.)
Keywords: attitudes, traditional teaching method, LdL method, five-stage method, WIHIC questionnaire.
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Jasmina Mirtoska 
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