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Volume 10 : 9 September 2010
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Reported Perceptions and Practices of English Language Teachers
at Secondary Level in Pakistan

Muhammad Rashid Hafeez, Ph.D. Candidate
Saiqa Imtiaz Asif, Ph.D.

Abstract

Teachers' perceptions and attitudes play an important role in teaching learning process. The present descriptive study, part of a PhD thesis, attempts to measure the attitudes, experiences and perceptions of the English language teachers at secondary level in Pakistan.

The study is significant in that it helps to compare the teachers' perception of how language learning takes place with their reported classroom practice.

To accomplish the desired goal, the study employed a survey instrument i.e. a questionnaire, to collect data from 100 English language teachers at the secondary level. The sample was equally divided among the male-female and urban-rural demographic variables. The questionnaire was pilot tested before administration to the sample. The Cronbach's alpha was found to be 0.82. The findings of the study revealed that there was a great difference between the teachers' perception of how the English language should be taught and their actual practices in the classroom.

Introduction

Teachers are one of the most important stakeholders in education system. This is especially so in the field of foreign language teaching. Though the teachers are no more considered as "masters", the term replaced with facilitators, the importance of instruction and pedagogy remains unchallenged. It is the teacher who, with best practices and techniques in his relevant field, induces and complements the process of teaching/learning.

The English language teaching world has seen a tremendous transformation during the last century. However, quite contradictory to the changed conditions in the developed countries, the teachers in the third world mostly stick to the grammar translation approach, which is the most popular approach with teachers (Aili 1998, Hussain, 2005).

This paper presents perceptions and reported practices of English language teachers at secondary level in Pakistani district Khushab. 100 teachers, equally distributed into male/female and rural/urban, were selected as a sample for the study. The teachers were administered a questionnaire containing 34 items based on the Likert Scale. The questionnaire mainly focussed on these themes.

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Muhammad Rashid Hafeez, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of English
BZU Multan
Pakistan
safnaan@hotmail.com

Saiqa Imtiaz Asif, Ph.D.
Department of English
BZU Multan
Pakistan

 
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