Teaching Practices and Knowledge Base of English as a Foreign Language Teachers' Communicative Language Teaching Implementation

• Published in: International education studies Vol. 12; no. 7; pp. 58 - 66
• Main Author: Jansem, Anchalee
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 29.06.2019
• Subjects: Communication Skills; Communicative Competence (Languages); Elementary Schools; English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Language Teachers; Second Language Instruction; Secondary Schools; Teacher Attitudes; Teaching Methods; Teaching Styles; Thailand (Bangkok)
• ISSN: 1913-9020
• DOI: 10.5539/ies.v12n7p58

This small scale study aimed at identifying (1) the characteristics of teaching practices in CLT classrooms, (2) teachers' opinions underlying such practices, (3) their positions while adopting CLT, and (4) a knowledge base used as a framework of CLT implementation. Eight Thai teachers who rega...