Abstract
Several Pakistani secondary school students from various popular
institutes undergo a variety of problems and difficulties due to their inability
to demonstrate a genuine and natural skill to use English language in real life.
The situation under which English at the secondary level is taught in Pakistan
is not as favorable to teaching and learning of the language as it ought to be.
The main reason is lack of trained teachers and effective and precise objectives
of English curriculum. The majority of teachers teaching English language at
schools depend upon outmoded instructional modus operandi. This paper
serves as a measure to identify the current gaps in teaching of English at
secondary school. It mainly compares the performance of students in four
English skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) taught by traditional
and skill-based English teaching methods. The findings reveal that there is no
concept of skills-based language teaching among secondary school students
and the subsequent testing of the expected skills across all secondary schools
in Pakistan. This results in the lack of professional requirement for natural use
of English amongst secondary school students.
Dr. Muhammad Yousuf Sharjeel, Erum Khan, Abdul Nasir Kiazai , Dr. Zarina Waheed. (2018) Analysis of Issues and Challenges in Developing Secondary School Students’ Skills in English Language , AL-BURZ, Volume 10, Issue 1.
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