Communicative language teaching and learning : interfacing theory and practice - the case of Botswana secondary schools

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dc.contributor.advisor Bosman, Nerina en
dc.contributor.postgraduate Mothudi, T.H. (Tamucha) en
dc.date.accessioned 2015-11-25T09:47:25Z
dc.date.available 2015-11-25T09:47:25Z
dc.date.created 2015/09/01 en
dc.date.issued 2015 en
dc.description Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2015. en
dc.description.abstract Researchers world-wide and also in Botswana have highlighted the lack of compatibility between Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and the beliefs and traditions of specific contexts. This research seeks to contribute to this body of research by reporting on the interface between the theory and practice of CLT in Botswana’s urban junior secondary schools. One reason for the widely held perception in Botswana that there are problems with English second language proficiency can be found in the English second language secondary school classrooms. The quantitative data analysis saw some contradictory findings. On the one hand teachers appeared to approve of and knew what CLT was. On the other hand, their theoretical knowledge did not seem as sound as it should be. The teachers themselves seemed to feel that they were left out of the decision making process and their answers also suggested that they had to rely on their own initiatives to augment their teaching. In the qualitative part of the study it was demonstrated that little of the typical and most fundamental aspects of CLT were apparent in the classrooms. Limited attention is devoted to developing the learners’ skills and knowledge of how language is effectively used as a vehicle for conveying meaning in different socio-cultural contexts. In contextualising the findings within CLT research, the study attributes this discrepancy to, among others, what appears to be a top-down decision taken to implement the communicative curriculum in Botswana’s ELT, prior to ensuring that the CLT paradigm has been adequately conceptualized by the language teachers. The study recommends that pre-service and in-service training should be far more focused on preparing teachers for their new role as facilitators in the CLT classroom. en
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dc.description.degree DPhil en
dc.description.department Afrikaans en
dc.description.librarian tm2015 en
dc.identifier.citation Mothudi, TH 2015, Communicative language teaching and learning : interfacing theory and practice - the case of Botswana secondary schools, DPhil Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50715> en
dc.identifier.other S2015 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50715
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher University of Pretoria en_ZA
dc.rights © 2015 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. en
dc.subject UCTD en
dc.subject.other Humanities theses SDG-04
dc.subject.other SDG-04: Quality education
dc.title Communicative language teaching and learning : interfacing theory and practice - the case of Botswana secondary schools en
dc.type Thesis en


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