Moving to the realm of grammar, figure 18 shows that a great number of
respondents demand from students to learn grammatical rules before they are given
the chance to practice them (see appendix IV, p. 126, table 68), something which is in
accordance with the findings concerning their preference towards the synthetic
approach and the PPP teaching model, discussed above. However, such a practice is
inconsistent with the agreement many of them had expressed earlier to the statement
that children are too young to understand abstract concepts su 6