Cover Image

Student's understanding and practices regarding Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in Malaysian Secondary Schools

Nowadays in most of the educational systems all over the world many curriculum designers as well as administrators in the ministry of education of different countries recommended a very well-known approach of language teaching and learning namely Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in the English...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Raissi, Reza, Mohamad Nor, Faizah, A Aziz, Marzilah, Md. Saleh, Zanariah, Zainal, Zaidah
Format: Article
Published: 2013
Subjects:
P Language and Literature
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/40732/
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my.utm.40732
record_format eprints
spelling my.utm.407322017-08-02T04:18:03Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/40732/ Student's understanding and practices regarding Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in Malaysian Secondary Schools Raissi, Reza Mohamad Nor, Faizah A Aziz, Marzilah Md. Saleh, Zanariah Zainal, Zaidah P Language and Literature Nowadays in most of the educational systems all over the world many curriculum designers as well as administrators in the ministry of education of different countries recommended a very well-known approach of language teaching and learning namely Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in the English classes. In such a circumstance that CLT has been widely adopted by textbook designers and material writers all over the world, especially in ESL countries, different researches which have been conducted in the ESL/EFL countries shows that still in many cases teachers and students have different challenges and problems in order to apply CLT in their schools. In this study researchers attempted to investigate how CLT understood and implemented in Malaysian secondary schools from the students’ point of view. In order to get a clear picture of students’ understanding, perceptions and the way that they incorporate CLT in the secondary schools a semi-structured interview was conducted among 30 ESL Malaysian students in Malaysian secondary schools. Results of the study showed different contextual and cultural problems regarding implementation of CLT from the students’ viewpoint. There were some mismatches between what is going on in Malaysian secondary schools English classes and what has been assigned to do by the curriculum of the ministry of education of this country. At the end of the study some pedagogical implications have been proposed by the researchers which can help decision makers in the language teaching and learning of this country. 2013 Article PeerReviewed Raissi, Reza and Mohamad Nor, Faizah and A Aziz, Marzilah and Md. Saleh, Zanariah and Zainal, Zaidah (2013) Student's understanding and practices regarding Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in Malaysian Secondary Schools. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 4 (4). pp. 325-330. ISSN 2039-2117
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
building UTM Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
content_source UTM Institutional Repository
url_provider http://eprints.utm.my/
topic P Language and Literature
spellingShingle P Language and Literature
Raissi, Reza
Mohamad Nor, Faizah
A Aziz, Marzilah
Md. Saleh, Zanariah
Zainal, Zaidah
Student's understanding and practices regarding Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in Malaysian Secondary Schools
description Nowadays in most of the educational systems all over the world many curriculum designers as well as administrators in the ministry of education of different countries recommended a very well-known approach of language teaching and learning namely Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in the English classes. In such a circumstance that CLT has been widely adopted by textbook designers and material writers all over the world, especially in ESL countries, different researches which have been conducted in the ESL/EFL countries shows that still in many cases teachers and students have different challenges and problems in order to apply CLT in their schools. In this study researchers attempted to investigate how CLT understood and implemented in Malaysian secondary schools from the students’ point of view. In order to get a clear picture of students’ understanding, perceptions and the way that they incorporate CLT in the secondary schools a semi-structured interview was conducted among 30 ESL Malaysian students in Malaysian secondary schools. Results of the study showed different contextual and cultural problems regarding implementation of CLT from the students’ viewpoint. There were some mismatches between what is going on in Malaysian secondary schools English classes and what has been assigned to do by the curriculum of the ministry of education of this country. At the end of the study some pedagogical implications have been proposed by the researchers which can help decision makers in the language teaching and learning of this country.
format Article
author Raissi, Reza
Mohamad Nor, Faizah
A Aziz, Marzilah
Md. Saleh, Zanariah
Zainal, Zaidah
author_facet Raissi, Reza
Mohamad Nor, Faizah
A Aziz, Marzilah
Md. Saleh, Zanariah
Zainal, Zaidah
author_sort Raissi, Reza
title Student's understanding and practices regarding Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in Malaysian Secondary Schools
title_short Student's understanding and practices regarding Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in Malaysian Secondary Schools
title_full Student's understanding and practices regarding Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in Malaysian Secondary Schools
title_fullStr Student's understanding and practices regarding Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in Malaysian Secondary Schools
title_full_unstemmed Student's understanding and practices regarding Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in Malaysian Secondary Schools
title_sort student's understanding and practices regarding communicative language teaching (clt) in malaysian secondary schools
publishDate 2013
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/40732/
_version_ 1643650540151767040
score 13.211869

Similar Items