Grammatical Awareness Among Primary School English LanguageTeachers

This paper reports a study of Malaysian primary school teachers’ grammatical awareness.In particular, the study seeks to examine the English language teachers’ nature and levelof grammatical awareness. Questionnaire and interview techniques were used to elicitdata from primary school teachers who were following their B. Ed TESOL programme inUniversiti Sains Malaysia in 2006 and 2007. Findings of the study shed light on animportant facet of primary school English language teachers’ metalinguistic awareness inMalaysia, and informs the improvement of teacher education in the country.