Abstract: Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been broadly explored and studied by many researches in the English language teaching field. However, there are only few studies that explicitly focus on CLT and its use in the Malaysian polytechnic context especially after the shift in the Polytechnics English syllabus from English for Specific Purposes to Communicative English in 2011. After six years of the implementation of Communicative English (CE) in the polytechnics, polytechnics students’ English proficiency level is still not satisfactory. Hence, this study was designed to investigate the use of CLT in the teaching of English course among lecturers in Malaysian polytechnics focusing on the issues/challenges faced by the lecturers, lecturers’ level of understanding and level of CLT implementation. Respondents for this study were 90 English lecturers teaching in the Malaysian southern zone polytechnics. The mode of data collection is questionnaire. The pilot test using Alpha Cronbach analysis revealed the high reliability level which was 0.9. The actual collected data was analysed using SPSS 22.0 for descriptive analysis. Standard deviation was used to identify the lecturers’ level of understanding of CLT and the overall lecturers’ level of understanding is moderate which 0.45 is. As for level of CLT implementation, the CLT implementation is high which 0.21 is and the issues/challenges faced is moderate which is 0.42.
Keywords: Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), Malaysian polytechnics, Communicative English, polytechnics lecturers.
Title: The Use of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in the Teaching of English Courses among Malaysian Polytechnics Lecturers
Author: Rashidah binti Radzi Rasalingam, Mohamed Amin bin Embi
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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