Investigating Middle School Teachers' Views About The Effectiveness Of The Competency Based Approach In Teachi,g English As A Foreign Language

Résumé: The present descriptive study develops from the idea that there is no convergence between what algerian middle school pupils need in their real life and what they actually learn in their classroom. That is why, the competency-based approach (CBA), as a medium of instruction, has been adopted in the algerian educational system for enabling learners to practice what they have acquired at school, and to prepare them to be competent and autonomous in their learning process. Accordingly, the current study aims at investigating middle school EFL teachers' views about the effevectiveness of this new interdisciplinary approach in teaching EFL in the algerian middle schools. It has been hypothesised that algerian middle school EFL teachers would view CBA as an effective approach in teaching English as a foreign language. To achieve such an objective and to validate the hypothesis, a questionnaire has been designed as a research tool that has been administered to thirty-one (31) middle school EFL teachers, in Oum-El-Bouaghi. The findings obtained from the teachers' questionnaire have come to demonstrate the fact that CBA has, to large extent, proved to be an effective and efficient approach to learning english as a foreign language; hence the study's hypothesis has been confirmed.

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