Teaching grammar through text

Main aim of this study is to investigate whether teaching grammar through text has an impact on students? grammar achievement and there is a meaningful difference between this method and traditional teaching method.Six subjects have been selected at suffix, word and sentence level from grammar rules taught at class six, seven and eight and a multi selection test consists of fifty questions has been prepared fort the purpose of measuring students? skills on these issues. Test has been conducted to 118 students to be examined its effectiveness and evaluated by using ITEMAN programme. Arithmetic mean, standart deviation and confidence have been calculated as test statistics and having done necessary item corrections a first and last test consists of 40 questions has been done. This test has been applied to some schools. One unit of Ankara Gölbaşı TEK Primary School in which there is no meaningful difference and one unit of Etimesgut Sakarya Primary School have been determined as control group and experiment group respectively. Texts suitable for goal grammar rules in textbooks taught in 2006-2007 teaching year have been selected as implementetion material and activities based on these texts have been prepared and implemented to experiment group during twelve hours. SPSS 11.5 has been used in analyzing data collected from the last tests applied to both group.It has been concluded at the end of this tudy that teaching grammar through text is more effective in improving students? grammar skills than conventional technique.