| English language teaching in Iran: A GTM version of CLT? |
| کد مقاله : 1137-ELTCONF5-FULL |
| نویسندگان |
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حسن طرلانی *1، Fatemeh Mohammadi2 1Hassan Tarlani-Aliabadi,
PhD in TEFL
English Department,
Farhanghian University, Tehran, Iran 2Teacher student, Farhanghian University Tehran |
| چکیده مقاله |
| Formal English language teaching in senior high school in Iran began in 1939. Since then, four series of coursebooks have been developed for Iranian high school students, namely, Graded English 1, 2, 3, and 4, English 1, 2, 3, and 4, English Book 1, 2, 3 and English for pre-university students 1 and 2 (in a single volume) and Vision 1, 2 and 3. In 2013, a major national curriculum innovation took place adopting communicative language teaching (CLT) to teaching English language at junior and senior high school levels. To respond to this innovation, new series of Vision 1, 2 and 3 were developed to be taught at Iranian senior high schools. The purpose of the current study is to examine to what extent CLT principles are applied in teaching the new series to senior high school students. Data for the current research comes from classroom observations and follow-up interviews with a number of Iranian senior high school students and teachers. Analysis of the data reveals that no or little (if any) attention was given to speaking and listening, and almost none to writing. The student participants reported that their teachers placed a lot of importance on teaching grammar (mostly deductively), vocabulary and reading. Further analysis of the data indicated that there was little student initiation and student to student interaction thereby lagging all behind CLT principles and practice. Pedagogical implications are discussed. |
| کلیدواژه ها |
| Senior high school; national curriculum innovation; communicative language teaching; student initiation; student to student interaction |
| وضعیت: پذیرفته شده برای ارائه شفاهی |