I'm an Art teacher in Iran (Junior HighSchool)
But they gave me some English classes! and also in this year they changed the textbooks, in new books, they changed their methodes and now they don't have any grammars!
Also I should add this that in Iran, students start learning English when they are 13!
All the teachers agree that the goverment should change the age of starting English study, but it seems they don't care!
I know my English is not so good, because originally as I said, I'm an Art teacher...
So, I just wanted to know, that what's your idea about teaching English in this age without any Grammar?!
if you were interested, I can put the PDF of the book in here
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The situation is exactly like u said... But still I think their book needs a bit grammars!
Also they don't care about our ideas! Because central government design the textbooks, and they don't care about the ideas of teachers
I wish that goverment could understand the necessity of Grammar
Thanks for your comment,
In Iran it's common to give Art classes to the other teachers! and also sometimes the other teachers use this hours to teach other books, like math or science!
when they wanted to send my to one of their public schools, thay asked what's your other skills beside teaching Art, and I said: I also have an English Diploma... so they said: we don't have any Art classes and you should accept English classes!
And about grammars, they said to us that teaching grammar is forbidden! It's a CLT method and for now you should just work on communication! But I think they're in a wrong way, teaching without grammar can be good for ages like 5 or 6