FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2507424142> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W2507424142 abstract "AbstractThe demand for using the English language as a means of communication has increased substantially around the world because of its status as the language of globalisation, international communication, trade, media, and research (Flowerdew and Peacock 2001). The Saudi Ministry of Education (MoE) has considered this demand and taken significant steps to reform the teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). For example, the aims of and documentation for the TEFL curriculum have been modified to focus on the four basic language skills and to promote students’ communicative competence. However, despite all these efforts, there has been little progress in the area of TEFL in KSA. Classroom teaching practices are still devoted to secondary purposes, such as teaching grammar, translating literary texts, memorisation, rote learning, and preparing for summative exams. This reality may indicate an incompatibility between the government’s efforts to develop TEFL and the practices used by English language teachers in their classes. This incompatibility, however, may also suggest that English language teachers have their own reasons for not teaching English for communicative purposes and are incapable of implementing innovative teaching methods, such as the Communicative Language Teaching approach (CLT). This study therefore explores the challenges faced by Saudi English teachers (SETs) in their teaching practice that might prevent them from teaching for communicative purposes and implementing CLT in their classes. In order to meet this objective, data obtained from interviews, questionnaires and documents were analysed and classified into various categories. The key findings revealed that the current methodological practices of SETs are traditional teaching methods that stress the dominant role of teachers, marginalise students’ interactions, focus on discrete skills, and encourage competitive rather than cooperative learning. Furthermore, by using CHAT theory as a framework, the study explored a range of challenges that SETs face when the implementing CLT. These challenges stem from the individual and contextual levels of SETs’ teaching practice. At the individual level, it emerged that SETs had some misconceptions about some of the main features of CLT, and were not sufficiently confident to run communicative classes and adopt CLT in their teaching practice. The data, moreover, suggested that these shortcomings were a result of the SETs’ pedagogical and linguistic preparation in their pre-service programmes. At the contextual level, the study data suggested that there were two main types of constraint that challenge SETs in terms of teaching for communicative purposes and applying CLT in their teaching practice. Firstly, there were institutional and situational factors (for example the quality of the in-service training programme, examination purposes and classroom structure), and, secondly, socio-cultural factors (such as the traditional view of education, and the status…" @default.
• W2507424142 created "2016-09-16" @default.
• W2507424142 creator A5050472881 @default.
• W2507424142 date "2016-01-29" @default.
• W2507424142 modified "2023-09-28" @default.
• W2507424142 title "Implementing Communicative Language Teaching Method in Saudi Arabia: Challenges Faced by Formative Year Teachers in State Schools" @default.
• W2507424142 cites W115394847 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1244642305 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W127071476 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W139490194 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1496395347 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1500222191 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W150287472 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1504864727 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1505212822 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1508078757 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1508400329 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1519264693 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1520920886 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1522496511 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1528022241 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1536573182 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1540575563 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1542932561 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1543142111 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1548699666 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1550467974 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1556236940 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1560389623 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1564534790 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1565693361 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1576460547 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1589643853 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1591457272 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1597676467 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1601238107 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1604006688 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1608124789 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1622527855 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1667254438 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1691210411 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W173520916 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1741321747 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1767339332 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W177949835 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1824513743 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1931340718 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1969341403 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1971004810 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1972992799 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1977420962 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1977934735 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1983482832 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1984511804 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1987219442 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1987997358 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1988500820 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1990790952 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1993694511 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1994846537 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1998281197 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W1999335203 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2000117884 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2002477472 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2007638484 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2009768185 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2014337004 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2015712245 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2017592544 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2018554642 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2018717987 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2019585945 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2022647361 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2023316955 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2024547787 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2033399268 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2034014850 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2034240652 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2039238778 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2039701228 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2040974666 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2041257713 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2041693558 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2041711569 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2042180453 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2044275064 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2047214223 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2048025290 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2048752781 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2052722165 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2055870134 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2056290178 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2059509214 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2061565316 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2065018998 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2066235149 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2066932113 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2067205023 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2067671757 @default.
• W2507424142 cites W2069690225 @default.

• next