Teaching methods and approaches in ESL classrooms in Dhaka : a comparative study between English and Bangla Medium schools

Abstract

The study explores the present state of English Language Teaching in both English and Bangla medium schools in Bangladesh. It focuses exclusively on ELT teaching methods and approaches in Bangla and English medium schools, and compares the findings. The instruments are teacher questionnaires and researcher‟s classroom observation checklist. From the findings, it was evident that in case of English language teaching, teachers follow techniques that broadly fall under the communicative approach. language teaching, whereas Bangla medium school teachers follow those techniques that fall under Grammar translation method. These findings were supported by the findings of the researcher‟s own checklist except for a few differences.