Questionnaire for English Teachers

The Need to Incorporate the Communicative Approach in Teaching English as a Foreign

Language in the English Course for Yemen Third Arts

Researcher Research Guide

Hanan Ahmed Ali Al-Jarmoozi Dr. Mrs. Farhat P. Durani

(Ph.D scholar) (Research Supervision&Head.Dept..of English ,Sir Sayyad college, Aurangabad)

The aim of this questionnaire is to investigate teachers' attitude and familiarity about the
Communicative Approach in teaching English Language in secondary schools in Hodeidah,
Yemen .

This questionnaire will help the researcher to suggest recommendations and solution to apply
the Communicative Approach in the Yemeni setting .

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Name of English teacher.

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INSTRUCTIONS:

Please answer the following items by ticking against the appropriate answer in the table.

Collected data will be used only for research purpose and shall be kept confidential.
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1- What are the Yemeni secondary school teachers

of English needs towards adopting the
Communicative Approach in teaching
English?
1 Teachers should have a high degree of teaching ability to use
the Communicative Approach (CA).
2 The role of English teachers has a great effect for using the
communicative Approach in teaching English.
3 Teachers must get pre-service training to use the
Communicative Approach (CA) correctly in classrooms.
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4 The schools must have different teaching aids for the teachers
to teach English in classrooms.

5 The teachers proficiency has an effect on their actual

classroom practice.

6 Teacher helps students in a certain activities and exercises

which are given in the classroom
7 Teacher takes lots of efforts to prepare the communicative
martials
What attitudes do the EFL teachers have
regarding the Communicative Approach to
teaching English at secondary schools?
8 The syllabus of Yemeni secondary schools is suitable for
Yemeni students who learn English as a foreign language.

9 The Communicative Approach is a suitable method to

improve students communication in English outside
classrooms.
Communicative Approach is a method for motivating the
10 students to communicate in English ..
11 English syllabus (English Course for Yemen)of secondary
schools gives students an opportunity to develop their skills
such as listening ,speaking , reading and writing in English
language.

12 Teachers feel comfortable when their students take roles in

the classroom activities .
13 Teaching English by using the Communicative Approach is
better than teaching English by using a grammar based
approach
14 Communicative learning has an effect on the students
performance in learning English as a foreign language .
15 The Communicative Approach is a suitable method in
teaching Englishat secondary schools.
16 The Communicative Approach is beneficial to make positive
changes in teaching English language at the Yemeni setting .

17 The Communicative approach is a suitable method for

encouraging and motivating the students to use English in
classrooms.
18 The communication activities which are used in classrooms
help students to learn English language better.
What are the difficulties that prevent teachers from
successful implementation of the Communicative
Approach at the Yemeni secondary schools?

19 Teachers are unwilling to use the Communicative Approach

(CA) for teaching English in classrooms.

20 It is difficult for the teacher who has a low academic ability to teach
English communicatively.
21 Teachers face difficulties in their attempts to use the Communicative
Approach (CA) in the classrooms.
22 Students play an important role in the realization of the
communicative approach.

What are the benefit that students get from being

taught by the Communicative Approach?
23 The communicative activities that the teacher undertakes in class
room while teaching English language are beneficial for the
students4
24 The Communicative approach is a successful experience to make the
students learn English and use it in real life 4
25 Teachers use communicative approach to develop the students
learning strategies .

To what extent are Yemeni teachers of English

familiar with the Communicative Approach
principles ?
Teacher gives an importance to accuracy by focusing on
grammatical structure more than fluency (which focuses on

26 communication

27 The teacher should use mother tongue to clarify things to

his/her students
28 The communicative approach (CA) depends on the idea that
learning English language successfully comes through interaction
between the teacher and students in classrooms.
29 Teacher has no knowledge about communicative approach and its
ability.

30 Teachers must assess the students performance at the end of each

fluency practice to make the students aware of their weakness and
become more conscious of their errors.