No.

Strategies adopted to help students learn simple past tense

Sum of teachers

Percentage of teachers

Subcategories

Number of tokens

Total tokens

Percentage

1

Training on forms

30

30/51 = 58.82%

Dictation

7

43

7/43 = 16.28%

Drilling

9

9/43 = 20.93%

Fill-in-the-blanks

2

2/43 = 4.65%

Exercises on form

14

14/43 = 32.56%

Verb table

11

11/43 = 25.58%

2

Context (including authentic materials)

17

17/51 = 33.33%

3

Writing Practice

15

15/51 = 29.41%

4

Communicative activities

9

9/51 = 17.65%

5

Error correction

9

9/51 = 17.65%

6

Highlighting time markers

6

6/51 = 11.76%

7

Others²

6

6/51 = 11.76%

8

Using timeline

5

5/51 = 9.80%

9

Comparison of present tense and past tense

5

5/51 = 9.80%

10

Exploring grammatical rules

5

5/51 = 9.80%

11

Games, songs, videos

4

4/51 = 7.84%

12

Evaluation

4

4/51 = 7.84%

13

Reading practice

3

3/51 = 5.88%

14

Task-based instruction

2

2/51 = 3.92%

15

Story-telling

2

2/51 = 3.92%

16

Helping students to be aware of time concept

2

2/51 = 3.92%

17

Speaking

1

1/51 = 1.96%