Current Challenges in Teaching/
Learning English
By:
DR. Rezhna Balisany
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PROBLEMS ON THE PART OF STUDENTS
• No environment that makes them familiar with English in use.
• Various accents
• Vocabulary
• Idioms
• Terms
PROBLEMS ON THE PART OF TEACHERS
• Examination does not match with the evaluation
• Lesson plan
• No time to prepare for the lesson
PROBLEMS ON THE PART OF TEXTBOOKS
• Too difficult
• Too advance
• Not AUTHENTIC
PROBLEMS ON THE PART OF TEACHING
METHODS
• Grammar translation
• Wrong move: focus on reading and writing
• Form-focused
• Fail to develop independent learning skill
. PROBLEMS ON THE PART OF LANGUAGE
ASSESSMENT OR EVALUATION
• School authorities and parents believe that good schools are schools
that generate high grades on standardized tests.
• Since teachers are aware that their students' outcome is an indicator of
the quality of their work, accountability purposes of assessment might
dominate teachers' assessment beliefs.
PROBLEMS ON THE PART OF THE CURRICULUM
• Although the authorities and curriculum developers are attempting
to incorporate a communicative syllabus at public schools.
• BUT what is commonly delivered to students is at best a traditional
course where the focus is primarily on reading comprehension
(Razmjoo & Riazi 2006) and the sub-skills of grammar and
vocabulary (both of which are instrumental for the development of
reading skill).
Reasons and Problems
• Class-Room Conditions
• These conditions include the number of students in a class.
• The physical arrangement for the class , teaching materials such as chalks,
whiteboard, teaching aids, library etc.
• Lack of Audio-visual Aids
• There is a dearth of even simple visual aids like flash cards , charts , black
board , pictures.
Problems of Teaching
• English in Kurdistan have the following problems:
1. Old fashioned type of benches and desks
2. Bad lights
3. Noise
4. Lack of aids of all kinds.
