Abstract
The present article focused to evaluate the objectives of the in-service training
program by British Council English as Medium of Instruction for primary school
teachers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The objective of the study was to evaluate the
objectives of the training program. The primary school teachers who successfully
completed grade III training English as Medium of Instruction in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa were the population of the study. The study was delimited to male
primary school teachers of the three districts namely Mardan, Peshawar and
Swabi of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to lack of resources and cultural constraints.
The target population was nineteen hundred and forty-seven (1947) male primary
school teachers from which a sample of three hundred and thirty (330) primary
school teachers were selected under L.R Gay sample selection table and the
questionnaires were distributed among them. The data was collected through a
self-developed questionnaire of five Likert scale from the randomly selected
primary school teachers. The questionnaire consisted of items related to the
objectives: activity-based teaching, students centered teaching and using English
as medium of Instruction. The collected data were fed into the SPSS Version 16
and analyzed through percentage and chi-square. The results of the study
illustrated that primary school teachers were satisfied from the grade III training
under British in English as Medium of Instruction. The result showed that the
training achieved its objectives. The study recommended that in-service trainings
should be arranged for teachers to improve their teaching skills. The government
should provide opportunities to all the teachers to attend trainings which would
help them to make their teaching activity based and child centered
Shabir Ahmad, Iffat Ara Hussain, Akhter Ali. (2020) The Role of British Council Training Program English as Medium of Instruction in Training the Primary School Teachers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, The Dialogue, Volume 15, Issue 1.
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