Investigating Efl Teachers’ Beliefs And Practice Of Teaching Reading Skills:Five Secondary School Teachers Of Jimma Town In Focus

Abstract

Teachers' beliefs affect not only their teaching, but also filter new input, suggesting significant implications for the implementation of educational innovations and teacher development. This research investigate EFL teachers' beliefs of teaching reading skill and their actual classroom practices focusing on Jimma High Schoolss. And 80 EFL teachers from five Secondary schools were selected purposefully and conveniently. This study would be significant to students expecting that the quality of reading lessons will be improved because teachers would work better and gradually they will become skilled readers. And also teacher are the other beneficiaries of the study including classroom practitioners. Curriculum developers and syllabus designers professionally will look into their work and make the text book more welcoming concerning reading skill. One of the data gathering instruments in this case study was a questionnaire that asks the participants' beliefs of teaching reading related to the classroom practices and how these beliefs influence their classroom practices in teaching reading. In addition to the questionnaire, semi structured interviews were held to examine their beliefs in detail. Finally, in order to see whether participants ' beliefs of teaching reading matched with their actual practices in their classrooms or not, the participants were observed and recorded The classroom observations as well as the recordings were also examined by ·the researcher, and the data were verified The analysis of responses of participants recorded classroom observations and interviews were presented qualitatively in the findings section and (the questionnaire was presented quantitatively though percentage and frequency. Results of the study showed that EFL teachers hold their own belief on teaching reading; however their belief was incongruently implemented in the classroom. Finally, the study provides some recommendations to the subjects which could help to improve their everyday classroom practices to ongoing critical reflection. So, this can help them to be conscious about their belief and motivated to reconcile with their practices to provide effective teaching reading.