Teaching to the test in the algerian secondary school EFL class
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2013
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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The present research aims at investigating to what extent developing communicative competence is given priority in the algerian secondary school EFL class. It attempts to uncover whether EFL teachers' main focus is to develop their pupils' communication skills, or to cover the prescribed syllabus in the limited time available and make pupils ready for exams. Two questionnaires are used in this study. The first one is for teachers, and aims at investigating whether teachers teach to the test or to develop the learners' communicative competence. The second one is for pupils. It is concerned with the pupils' views, perceptions and attitudes about their teachers' way of teaching and testing. The results reveal that although most of teachers are aware of the importance of developing the learners' communicative competence, they do not give it much more priority in their practices.
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Enseignement langue (anglais) : EFL