Teaching through Behavioral Objectives to Enhance EFL Learning: An investigation of Second Year Teachers’ Attitudes and Practices in the Department of English at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou
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Date
2019
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
Abstract
The present study investigates teaching through behavioral objectives to enhance EFL learning in the Department of English at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou. Our investigation is concerned with teachers of second year level in charge of all modules. It aims at find in if teachers use behavioral objectives, and to what extent the use of behavioral objectives influence students’ language performance. In order to meet the objectives of the study, Robert Mager (1962) theory of behavioral objectives is applied. For collecting data, twelve (12) classroom observation sessions have been conducted with seven groups of students from the same level and 30 questionnaires are distributed to teachers of second year students in the Department of English. As far as data analysis is concerned, a mixed-method research combining quantitative and qualitative methods have been adopted, the quantitative data analyzed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). For qualitative data are analyzed using qualitative content analysis (QCA).The results of the study reveal that the use of behavioral objectives influence positively learners’ performance.
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30cm ; 50p.
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Behavioral Objectives, Performance.
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Didactics of Foreign Languages