LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 12 December 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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A Diagnostic Study of EFL Courses at
the Community College of Jazan University

Hussain Ahmed Liton, M.A. and Md. Maher Ali, Ph.D.

Abstract

This paper explores the new routes and avenues of accelerating EFL learning in the Community College of Jazan University, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Ministry of education is highly concerned with the pursuit of excellence in EFL learning in the arena of education but it faces tardy progress. This is a common scenario in almost all the seats of learning in KSA.

The authors of this study ventured to explore the possible pathways in the realm of language learning motivation with a view to accelerating and incorporating EFL teaching-learning affairs and made an attempt to diagnose the predicaments of EFL courses in Jazan Community College through survey questionnaires for teachers (see Appendix-1) and observation.

The data of this research were collected through questionnaires from a total of 25 teachers. This study reports on the basis of statistical data analyses, observation and on primary and secondary sources. Finally, this paper offers some remarkable implications and recommendations to accelerate better EFL learning outcomes based on the results of the present research survey.

Key words: EFL learners, socio-cultural milieu, motivation, curriculum, classroom, data analysis

1. Introduction and Historical Background

Today, English is not merely the patrimony of the Anglo-Saxons but a global language and a single lingua franca. “It is now a universal public property. By the British colonial train, it travelled almost the entire world, came in touch with myriad people and their languages, and enriched itself as the world's number one language” (Askari, 2010, p. 21).

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Hussain Ahmed Liton, M.A.
Lecturer
English Language Centre
Jazan University
Jazan, P.O. Box-114
K.S.A.

Ex-Lecturer
Department of English
Bangladesh Islamic University
Dhaka-1203, Bangladesh
haljusa@gmail.com
ju.ksa09@hotmail.com

Md. Maher Ali, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of English
Islamic University
Kushtia, P.O. Box 7033
Bangladesh
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