LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 12 December 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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Evaluation of English Language Teaching Methods Used in Higher Secondary Education in Bangladesh

Nitish Kumar Mondal, M.A. (Double)

Abstract

The language teaching methods are very important for the purpose of learning and teaching in every language. English language has different teaching methods like other languages of the world.

The objective of the study was to find out the strengths and weaknesses of the present English language teaching methods and to evaluate their suitability in teaching English at higher secondary level education in Bangladesh. For the purpose of data collection, a questionnaire was prepared where the populations of the study were college teachers.

A total of 100 teachers were selected as the sample for this study. The respondents were from the different colleges in three districts. The sample was selected through a random sampling method. Though a number of teaching methods are used at higher secondary level, the findings showed and side by side suggested that the present method named “Communicative Language Teaching” used on the Higher Secondary level education in Bangladesh was not suitable for the current text book of English, where interaction between the teachers and the students are lacked of and two skills like reading and writing are applied only and the teachers were not using this method wholeheartedly. Then the current method needed to be improved with adding grammar and literary piece, which could be applied through technological aspects.

Key words: methods, strengths, weaknesses, suitability, technological.

Introduction

Evaluation of language teaching methods is needed for knowing pros and cons of the methods and updating them in any language. Evaluation of language teaching method means to decide the value or quality of methods. Kiely, et al (2005) remarked about language program evaluation that ‘Evaluation’ has been a persistent problem and it is the heart that connects and gives blood to all the other program elements and a primary focus on making judgments about language programs based on experimental designs and limited quantitative analyses. They are very much interested launching that language education practitioners have begun to realize the benefits of broader notions of evaluation as a means of informing program development, and a focus on program processes has gained substantial attention in this regard. Thus, they have suggested that evaluation process should be used meaningfully.

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Nitish Kumar Mondal, M.A. (Double)
English Discipline
Khulna University
Khulna-9208
Bangladesh
nitish.english@yahoo.com
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