Problems facing teachers in Implementing the comptency -Based Approach in Teaching Writing skill

Abstract

The Competency-Based Approach is a new approach which was adopted by the Algerian Educational system in 2003. It aims to enhance the learner’s competencies in order to use them in their real lives. Despites its importance, some Algerian secondary school teachers fail to know how to adopt this new approach especially in teaching writing since it is the most difficult skill for both teachers and foreign learners. Hence, why are teachers unable to adopt this approach in their written courses? The present study aims at investigating and analyzing the main problems that face EFL Secondary school teachers in teaching writing under the Competency-Based Approach. We hypothesized in this study that if Algerian teachers of secondary schools knew how to apply the Competency-Based Approach; they would promote student’s writing proficiency. The used method in this research work is the descriptive method. a questionnaire was designed and distributed to eight teachers in three secondary schools in ElOued . The questionnaire aims to know how to implement this new approach in order to enhance students' writingcompetencies to use it in their real life. Analyses and the interpretations of the questionnaire revealed that there are many problems which face teachers in teaching writing under the CBA, these problems are ; time allotted ,class numbers , lack of technological equipment , lack of seminars and conferences for teachers and the low level of students in writing.