196 The Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal Volume 17, Number 2, September 2017 Teaching Grammar through Task-Based Language Teaching to Young EFL Learners Mustafa Yildiz Anadolu University Mufit Senel Ondokuzmayis University ABSTRACT The present study investigates the effects of Task-Based Language Teaching on students’ grammar knowledge in the field of teaching grammar. It has been studied with 32 students from 8 th grade during a two-and-a-half-month process. Throughout this process, students firstly are applied a pre-test to examine their level and to confirm whether there is homogeneity between experimental and control groups. The findings on the pre-test results of the students do not yield meaningful results; and the study, especially the instruction process of grammatical structures launches. At the end of the instruction process, a post-test is applied to students to evaluate whether the progress between pre and post-test results are meaningful or not. TBLT raises significantly the grammar knowledge of the experimental students. Task-Based Language Teaching in teaching grammar yields meaningful results compared to traditional language teaching method in this study. INTRODUCTION Teaching a foreign language is a process in which a language which has a different structure than mother tongue is taught. There are several methods and approaches used in teaching a foreign language. The success of foreign language teaching in a classroom largely depends on approaches, methods and techniques. These methods and approaches may vary according to students’ mental level and age group, enabling different applications. Even though there is a list of methods and approaches for teaching language, effective language teaching is their common purpose. They all try to reach the same destination by using different routes. The four basic language skills; reading, writing, speaking, and listening, are divided into two groups as receptive and productive skills. All these skills in fact are related to each other and one of them is a prerequisite of the others like the links of a chain. Effective use of the language prerequisites the effective use of the grammar, so the language users have to be efficient grammar users. To achieve this, a learner has to learn the grammar of the target language effectively.