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Since last few decades, Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been boosted in language classrooms, but a couple of research studies showed that there was a mismatch between teachers’ perception of CLT and their practice in the classrooms(Nunan, 2003, Sato, 2002). The present study investigated how Korean L1 teachers understand CLT and how they implement it in teaching of English
grammar through survey and class observation. The results revealed that a) all the teachers perceived the concept and the features of CLT to some extent b) Unlike their understanding of CLT, their grammar instructions still relied on traditional grammar practices such as teacher-fronted mechanical drills, translation, repetition, etc. Therefore, the possible implication of the present study is that it is necessary to develop various grammar activities based on CLT and teachers themselves should try to revise the textbooks for effective practice of grammar teaching, not depending on the activities given the textbooks.