Problems of Teaching English Conversation by Using Communicative Approach among Secondary School Teachers in Kirkuk Province

Abstract

The Issues that Kirkuk Secondary School Students Encounter when Learning Conversation in English using the Communicative Approach (A method that emphasizes teaching communication as opposed to rote learning grammatical structures and vocabulary) and What Communicative Teaching is Capable of Achieving is the Focus of this Paper. To communicate is the main aim of communicative language teaching. During the teaching process, students should communicate with one another as well as with the teacher in order to ensure that they have the capacity to communicate effectively and with certainty in the real world. The ultimate goal of CLT (Communicative Language Teaching) is to orient students to the community and teach them a new language that they can use to communicate with the community. The objective of this particular research study, however, is to provide students with the ability to speak English fluently and without fear of making mistakes. The research study was carried out in the Kirkuk Secondary Schools in Northern Iraq with a target group of 16 male and female teachers. To English language teachers, an eleven-item questionnaire was also administered to pinpoint the problems encountered. The difficulties pinpointed in the questionnaire, were acknowledged as significant for the lack of teaching by those sixteen teachers.