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- Title
Secondary School Teachers' Conception of Communicative Language Teaching: A Case for Masvingo District - Zimbabwe.
- Authors
Mareva, Rugare; Mapako, Felix
- Abstract
This study focused on how Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is conceptualised by secondary school teachers in Zimbabwe, using Masvingo District as a case study. The inquiry employed a qualitative research design in which data were collected through in-depth interviews with twenty-four (24) purposively sampled secondary school teachers. The study established that while all the teachers claim to be aware of this approach to language teaching and indeed demonstrate a degree of understanding of what the approach entails, the teachers hold eleven (11) glaring misconceptions about CLT. The paper recommends that the Ministry of Education, Sport, Art and Culture should not only monitor the implementation of CLT in the schools as explicitly advocated by the syllabus, but also hold regular workshops with teachers so that ideas on the approach and how best to implement it are shared.
- Subjects
MASVINGO Province (Zimbabwe); CONVERSATION method (Language teaching); SECONDARY school teachers; QUALITATIVE research in education; ENGLISH as a foreign language; COMMUNICATIVE competence; INTERACTIVE assessment (Education)
- Publication
NAWA Journal of Language & Communication, 2012, Vol 6, Issue 2, p29
- ISSN
1993-3835
- Publication type
Article