The Role of Context in Teaching English as a Foreign Language : The Case of First Year Middle School Learners of Ain Temouchent

Abstract

No one denies the fact that teaching and learning a foreign language inside the classroom context has shown some benefits. The inside context offers opportunities of gathering knowledge in an academic way. These opportunities focus on the role of the teacher, learners’ behaviours and the role of the context too. Thus, this work is based on action research, examines whether or not the classroom context provides enough knowledge for the first year Middle School English foreign language learners at Ain Temouchent and its outskirts, showing the importance and the benefits of classroom learning on the learners. To confirm or disconfirm the stated hypothesese, we conducted questionnaires for both English foreign language teachers and learners. The whole investigation provides by the end of the research work a number of recommendations and suggested solutions