Alharbi, Jamilah Maflah and Abdulwahab Aldaba, Abdulmajid Mohamed
(2018)
Exploration of English teachers' understandings and practices of communicative language teaching (CLT) at pre-university level of Islamic tertiary educational organization.
International Journal of Asian Social Science, 8 (7).
pp. 320-331.
ISSN 2226-5139
E-ISSN 2224-4441
Abstract
Previous studies regarding communicative language teaching approach (CLT) have
shown that many language teachers saying they are adopting CLT in their classes.
However, when it comes to the reality they are utilizing other traditional approaches
which reflect a disparity between the theoretical and practical sides of this issue which
needed to be studied. Thus, the first objective of this paper is to explore the
understandings of English language teachers from Centre for Strategic Education and
Training (IIUM CRESCENT) regarding the main attributes of CLT. The second
objective is see how they practice it at the pre-university level in International Islamic
University Malaysia (IIUM). The third aim is to find out what the situational
challenges that might face them whilst implementing CLT, which causes a deviation
from utilizing it in their classes. A qualitative phenomenological analysis method was
adopted in this study, and its participants are five English language teachers from
IIUM CRESCENT. These English teachers who have taken part in this study showed
a positive understandings of CLT attributes which coincide with its characteristics.
However, they have also mentioned some cultural and situational challenges that
hinder their implementation of CLT, as result; they blend it with other teaching
methods. This paper concludes with recommendations for adopting CLT for multinational and multi-cultural students at pre-university level in Islamic context.
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