Abstract

This study explores the perceptions of teachers about the use of Authentic Material in Pakistani secondary school English language teaching classrooms. The research was descriptive in nature and used a quantitative approach to collect data through a survey questionnaire from 40 Pakistani Secondary school English language teachers. The questionnaire used was initially adapted from a research done in Hong Kong by Yeung Ting-fai in 2011, under the topic “English language teachers' attitudes towards the use of authentic materials in Hong Kong secondary schools” but then modified to a larger extent according to the scenario and situation of the Pakistani education system. The data was analyzed through SPSS and descriptive statistics were obtained. The results of this research are significant in Pakistani context. Although many teachers wanted to use Authentic Material in their classes, they were hesitant to do so due to the constraints related to curriculum, examination system and administrative pressure. The study recommends adapting curriculum and examination systems to provide administrative support that can provide space to Pakistani secondary school teachers for using Authentic Material in English language classrooms.

Highlights

  • Learning a foreign/second language has always been the need of humanity due to one reason or another

  • The questionnaire used for this study was initially adapted from a research done in Hong Kong by Yeung Ting-fai (2011), entitled “English Language Teachers’ Attitudes Towards the use of AMs in Hong Kong Secondary Schools”

  • The main focus of the study was to explore the perceptions of the secondary school teachers about using use AM in English language classrooms in Pakistan

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Introduction

Learning a foreign/second language has always been the need of humanity due to one reason or another. For the past few centuries English has been the most popular language to be learnt as a foreign/second language due to the prestige it gained as an international language for communication be it business or academia. Besides the academic usages of a second language, there has been a search for methods and techniques to communicate in the second or foreign language in real life situations. This poses a challenge for language instructors who are mostly limited to their classrooms. To address this challenge, the use of authentic material ( AM) came to the fore.

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