A Health-Check of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in Rural Primary Schools of Bangladesh

Autor/inn/en	Hoque, Mohammed Shamsul; Idrus, Rozhan M.; Islam, Yousuf Mahbubul
Titel	A Health-Check of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in Rural Primary Schools of Bangladesh
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 11 (2018) 7, S.163-175 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Rural Schools; Elementary Education; Mixed Methods Research; Questionnaires; Semi Structured Interviews; Lesson Observation Criteria; Teacher Surveys; Administrator Surveys; Educational Assessment; Educational Indicators; Communicative Competence (Languages); Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Needs Assessment; Student Needs; Environmental Influences; Family School Relationship; Partnerships in Education; Educational Technology; Educational Resources; Teaching Experience; Self Efficacy; Delivery Systems; Familiarity; Bangladesh + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Elementarunterricht; Fragebogen; Unterrichtsmitschau; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Communicative competence; Languages; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Sprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Bedarfsermittlung; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Unterrichtsmedien; Bildungsmittel; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Auslieferung; Bangladesch
Abstract	Bangladesh ELT situation has been deteriorating for the last four decades. Regional and national projects including ELTIP and EIA proved to be futile in improving this situation, especially, in the Bangladesh rural primary schools with almost 0% properly trained English teachers to implement the current CLT curriculum. This article investigates the on-going poor health-status of CLT at randomly selected schools of northern Bangladesh through delving into the research gaps linked with the ELT practitioners' own English proficiency, their training needs, motivation and teaching skills; their perception on the instructional module; and perception of the YLs of English in Bangladesh. This enquiry uses a mixed method involving a questionnaire survey, semi-structured interview with ELT teachers, teacher trainers, head-teachers and lesson observation followed by a workshop and informal discussion with 100 participants from all ELT stake-holders to validate the findings of the earlier questionnaire survey. The findings conclude that ineffective and lack of teacher training, non-availability of English subject teacher, unproductive instructional materials, unhelpful learning environment, learners' socio-economic background, teachers' poor competence in English and knowledge of CLT methods are responsible for this deterioration. It recommends that implementation of a rigorous teacher training program for CLT to produce English subject teachers for each school, production of a pedagogically user-friendly instructional module for CPD, a culture-oriented teaching-learning environment and a program of regular guidance and supervision by CLT experts would address the gaps prevailing in the ELT (and CLT) situation at the rural primary schools of Bangladesh. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01