Difficulties in Teaching Active and Passive Voice to Learners
Keywords:
Active Voice, Passive Voice, Grammar Teaching, Grade 7 Learners, Methodological Difficulties, Auxiliary Verbs, Cross-Linguistic Interference, Communicative CompetenceAbstract
This study examines the main difficulties in teaching active and passive voice to Grade 7 students. Learners often struggle with sentence transformation, auxiliary verbs, past participle forms, and subject–verb agreement. Uzbek language interference and limited understanding of the communicative function of passive voice also affect learning. The study highlights the importance of systematic and communicative teaching methods to improve grammatical accuracy and language use.
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