English in Action (EIA) programme, Bangladesh: teaching and learning English – teachers’ and students’ perceptions

Burton, Sonia and Perez-Gore, Isabelle (2014). English in Action (EIA) programme, Bangladesh: teaching and learning English – teachers’ and students’ perceptions. In: 9th International & 45th Annual ELT@I Conference: English - From Classes to Masses, 21-23 Aug 2014, Jaipur, India.

Abstract

This talk presents Government of Bangladesh teachers and students’ views to learning English and communicative language practices. The teachers and students who took part in the study are participating in English in Action (EIA), a large-scale UKaid-funded English language development project, aiming to provide learning opportunities to 25 million people in Bangladesh. The teachers are part of the EIA professional development programme for English teachers, which introduces new communicative teaching methodologies at school level.

The views of 535 primary and secondary teachers, 457 secondary students and 374 primary students presented here have been collected via questionnaires and interview survey. The study provides evidence of teachers and students perceptions after participating in the EIA programme for 12 months.

The study found teachers and students had positive attitudes towards more communicative methodologies, English language learning and the EIA project, impacting on their confidence.

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