- Each unit revises or presents two different grammar points in the context of a topic,
through a reading or listening text, the rules of form and use of each point being then explicitly
highlighted in a grammar box; - The grammar boxes are followed by controlled and then freer practice of the
structure. This allows the rules to be internalized so that students can achieve linguistic
competence; - The amount of time provided for the study of English (two classes a week) for both
classes, creates the condition for the experiment to be conducted without impending on their
study of the textbook; - The textbook used contains few activities related to modal verbs as well as
theoretical support which made it easier to devise a plan with measures that should bear not only
on the proficient use of modals by the students involved, but also on the effective study of the
course syllabus; - When the book doesn’t offer necessary activities for a better understanding of the
topic, I use different materials from different web sites.
6.1. Research Methods ......................................................................................
If we are to take into account the latest developments in the educational it is easily
understandable a teacher‘s desire of being not only an explainer and assessor, but an “involver”,
as Jim Scrivener (1994) calls him. Besides knowing the subject matter that is being dealt with,
namely the English language and how it works, the “involver” is able to use appropriate teaching
and organizational procedures and techniques to help his students learn about the subject matter.
In order to do that, a teacher needs to come up with his own ideas experience, to always
be interested in the most recent discoveries made in the teaching language process. He has to be
familiar with the steps he is about to follow in his psycho-pedagogical research and to be able to
use as many interesting generalization from the data collected during the research.
In order to verify the working hypothesis, we used the following methods of research:
a) Observation;
b) Conversation;
c) The pedagogical experiment;
d) The docimologic test;
e) The statistic method.
a) The method of observation