CRITICAL OVERVIEW OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODS

This study had tested three research questions: 1. What teachers should teach? 2. What are the aims of teaching?, and 3. How a teacher should teach?. This research is useful for both, the participants since they had the opportunity to show their opinion on the English curriculum, and the teachers since they express their opinion regarding the difficulties they encounter while teaching English as a second language and what do they do to improve the lesson. Besides, the study will be conducted as a way to get the whole picture regarding the methods that are being used by teachers, pay attention to the common mistakes that are being made in the teaching process and try to find their source. Qualitative analyses of the information collected from students and teachers were used in this research with the use of some instruments such as: a questionnaire for students and a questionnaire for teachers. The research is intended only for Albanian-speaking students aged 15-16, class XII, who were attending English lessons at the high school Shaban Hasani in Ferizaj, Republic of Kosovo, and for Albanian-speaking teachers from the same high school aged 33-46. The results from this comparative study shall serve as an opportunity to get a clear vision on what kind of methods do teachers use in the English-language classroom and how well do students perceive them. It will also show the drawbacks of the teaching methods and how creative or not they are and will also serve as a way of proposing few ideas and solutions in order to get teaching to a completely new and more contemporary level that would be of great help to teachers, and also students would benefit a lot from this.