Teaching Practices in English as a Second Language at Secondary Level: Opportunities and Threats

Abstract

The main intention of this study was to identify the opportunities and threats in teaching English as second language at secondary Level. Specifically, its focused on external factors (opportunities and threats) encountered by English language teachers in the four primary language skills: listening, reading, speaking, and writing. To achieve the objectives of this study, a quantitative descriptive survey design was employed, using structured questionnaire to identifying opportunities and threats in instructional practices in English as a second language at secondary level. All public secondary school English teachers of the School Education Department of Punjab, Pakistan were considered as the population of the study. In this study stratified random sampling technique was used for sampling and selected 301 (187 male and 114 female) secondary school English teachers. The data was analyzed through frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations, t-tests and one-way ANOVA test. The results and findings of this study revealed the opportunities such as teaching trainings, use of technologies, apps, software and speaking with natives can improve teaching effectiveness. Threats investigated like lack of audio and video equipment, insufficient time, rigid curriculum, large class sizes, inadequate technology-related training, and lack of finance.