CLT IN POLICY DOCUMENTS AND EFL CURRICULA
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Date
2023
Authors
Oralbayeva Nurziya
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NUGSE Research in Education, 6(1)
Abstract
Since the use of English expanded throughout the post-Soviet states, the trend towards the use of the grammar-translation method in EFL teaching in schools can still be prominent in post-Soviet countries (Hasanova, 2007). It is common knowledge that this approach often results in low communicative language competence. Thus, the primary purpose of this paper is to discover whether the grammar-translation method is still promoted or is re- placed or shifted to CLT. The paper presents a critical analysis of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in the contexts of Kazakh- stan and Uzbekistan through analyzing the goals and objectives in the policy documents regarding the teaching of English to track whether the goals determine CLT. Besides, the paper aims at discovering whether the goals in curricula are directed toward developing communicative competence in learners...
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type of access: open access, grammar-translation, communicative language learning, English as a foreign language, curriculum, language policy
Citation
Oralbayeva N. (2023) CLT in policy documents and EFL curricula. Graduate School of Education.