Exploring Malian EFL Teachers' Pedagogical Practices in Developing Malian EFL Learners' Speaking Skills: Case of High Schools
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12571705Keywords:
Pedagogical practices, Speaking skills, EFL teachers, Mali, Communicative activitiesAbstract
The present study explores the pedagogical practices employed by Malian EFL teachers to develop the speaking skills. One of the main goals of learning is a language is to learn to speak it. Most foreign language learners aspire to speak the language they are learning. The current study employs the qualitative research method design. 30 lessons of ten Malian EFL teachers were observed to investigate what pedagogical practices they employ to develop the speaking skills in Malian EFL learners. The findings revealed that the majority of the lectures observed (70%), none of the activities for promoting speaking is used. In twenty (20%) of the observed lectures, role-play, discussion and debates are used in the teaching processes. Information gap activity and games are used in 10%. Moreover, the results indicate that sixty-seven (67%) of the activities in the lectures observed are non-communicative, thirty-three (33%) are communicative.
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