Teachers' Attitudes towards Selected Foreign Language Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Practices

Abstract

The paper reports a study undertaken to investigate EFL teachers' attitudes towards selected curriculum, instruction and assessment practices with reference to teaching English as a foreign language in relation to their demographic characteristics. The study aimed to find out whether there were significant differences in their attitudes in relation to nationality, age, teaching experience, educational qualifications and the level taught. The subjects completed a questionnaire (adapted from Wolf, Jr. and Riordan, 1991) comprising 20 statements to which they responded on a 5-point scale of agreement. Item reliability, overall mean score, mean scores for the variables, and t-test were used to interpret the data. The main findings of the study are reported with implications for both pre-service and in-service training.