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IJELC ISSN: 2360-7831 |
International
Journal of English Literature and Culture |
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International Journal of English Literature and Culture Vol. 8(2), pp. 38-44, March, 2020 ISSN: 2360-7831 DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2020.005
Review paper
Teachers’ Beliefs, Perceptions and Attitudes Regarding the Practice of CLT Implementation in the EFL Classrooms
Seifu Bogale Tiku
College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of English Language and Literature, Wolkite University, Wolkite, Ethiopia. Email:seifuboge@gmail.com
Accepted 8 February 2020
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is an approach to the teaching of second or foreign languages that emphasize communication as both the means and the ultimate goal of learning a language. The purpose of this study was to investigate teachers’ beliefs, perceptions and attitudes regarding the practice of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) implementation in the English Language classrooms, and data were collected fromtwelve English language teachers drawn from six high schools found in Guraghe Zone (Southern Ethiopia) through self-reported questionnaire. The data were organized, tabulated and analyzed and interpreted using descriptive analysis method.Findings revealed that teachers’ use of Communicative Language Teaching promotes learners’ centeredness in taking responsibility for their own learning process; teachers should understand the basic principles of CLT; tasks and activities of CLT must be negotiated and adapted to suit students’ needs rather than being imposed on them. The teachers agreed thatCLT is the most important criterion by which language learning and performance should be judged. They also said that group work activities are essential in providing opportunities for cooperative relationships to emerge and in promoting genuine interactions among students. Therefore, it is recommended that the teachers should further develop their understanding of CLT and should implement it accordingly so as help their students to become effective in using the language for communication by developing their communicative competence.
Keywords: Teachers’ Beliefs, Perceptions, Attitudes, Practice, CLT, EFL
Seifu BT (2020). Teachers’ Beliefs, Perceptions and Attitudes Regarding the Practice of CLT Implementation in the EFL Classrooms. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 8(2): 38-44 |
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