EFL TEACHERS’ ATTITUDE TO, PRACTICE OF AND CHALLENGES FACED IN COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING APPROACH: KONSO ZONE SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN FOCUS

Abstract

The study was attempt to investigate the EFL teachers’ attitude to, practice of and challenges faced in communicative language teaching approach: Konso zone secondary schools in focus. To attain the objective of the study, the researcher used survey descriptive research design. Also to get the appropriate data the researcher use questionnaire, classroom observation and interview as the instruments of data collection. The researcher took 33 teachers for questionnaire, nine teachers for classroom observation and five for interview. The researcher used comprehensive sampling technique to select population. In analyzing the data, the study used both quantitative and qualitative data analysis methods. That is descriptive statistics and narrative analysis methods were employed to analyze data carefully. The study discussed and analyzed results of EFL teachers’ attitude to, practice of and challenges faced in communicative language teaching approach: Konso zone secondary schools in focus. The finding reveals that majority of the respondents have a positive attitude towards CLT approach. Teachers have positive attitude but while practicing they were not applying it in actual TEFL communicative class. Finally, when they were applying CLT the challenges they faced includes shortage of time to implement CLT, overcrowded number of students in each class, mother tongue interference, lack of authentic teaching materials, students poor background knowledge of English language, fear of students to make a mistake in communicative activities, students less participation were the major challenges that affect CLT approach. Based on the above finding the researchers recommended that the Konso education department and woreda education offices have to aware teachers, give continuous training for teachers to motivate and apply the CLT approach in actual classroom and it also need further study on large area to check the problem