LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:6 June 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

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Do We Need to Look for an Alternative to CLT in Bangladesh?
A Study from Secondary Level English Teachers’ Perspective

Md. Khaled Bin Chowdhury, M.A. (Double)
Shakila Mustaque, M.A. (Double)

Abstract

Communicative Language Teaching is highly advocated by many applied linguists and English language teachers as an effective language teaching approach. But, the implementation of CLT in English as Foreign Language (EFL) context has encountered a huge number of difficulties. These difficulties vary widely from country to country. Bangladeshi English teachers also mention some problems that they face in applying CLT approach. They also uphold perceptions about the CLT principles. These perceptions and beliefs have direct impact on their teaching practice in the classroom. This study tries to find out a co-relation between their perceptions of CLT and impediments to implementation of CLT in secondary level English classes. This study also tries to find out whether the current approach-fetish ELT education system needs to be changed. The study was based on data collected from 20 secondary level English teachers of Bangladesh through questionnaires with fixed alternatives and unstructured interviews with the teachers. The answers were tabulated numerically and analyzed for interpretation.

Keywords: Communicative Language Teaching approach, Communicative competence, ESL Context, EFL Context, Traditional method.

Introduction

Many a research work has been conducted to investigate if the Communicative Language Teaching approach, a Western innovation, can be applied to and followed as a language teaching method in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. (Burnaby and Sun, 1989, Ellis, 1996, Li, 1998, Xiaoju, 1984).

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Md. Khaled Bin Chowdhury, M.A. (Double)
Assistant Professor
Department of English
BGC Trust University
Chittagong- 4000
Bangladesh
mdkhaledchowdhury@ymail.com

Shakila Mustaque, M.A. (Double)
Lecturer
Department of English
BGC Trust University
Chittagong- 4000
Bangladesh
shakilamustaque@yahoo.com
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