Evaluation of the effectiveness of in-service teacher training courses of the CALL sub-committee of the ELTR project in Pakistan

Abstract

The study seeks to explore the perception of the concerned English teachers (trainees) about in-service training courses conducted by the CALL sub-committee of the English Language Teaching Reforms (ELTR) Project of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan. The researchers interviewed 10 volunteer trainees during one of the CALL courses asking them about the usefulness and applicability of the course for them. The researchers again interviewed them as a follow-up at their respective workplaces mainly to see whether or not they had been practicing the training in-put; whether or not they had got the requisite technology to utilize the training and whether or not consequently they had got themselves professionally developed. The study brought to light the ineffectiveness of the training course in terms of the trainees not being able to utilize it mainly owing to the problem (of the lack of resources) faced by them at their workplaces. The study stressed for making merit or need-based selections/nominations of the trainees, devising a fool-proof mechanism for the follow-up of the trainees and for providing facilities to the trainees for implementation of the training in-put.