The Impact of EFL Teacher Training in Bangladesh

Abstract

Teacher training is one of the important factors to implement a new syllabus (Curriculum and Syllabus Report, 1995). In Bangladesh, a new syllabus has been introduced for teaching English using CLT method since 1995 (ibid). To reach the goal of that syllabus, the government is running some projects to provide training to the secondary English teachers, among them TQI-SEP (Teaching Quality Improvement in Secondary Education Project) is the largest project at present (Islam, 2009). But it seems that the quality of the training provided by TQI-SEP is questionable and whatever the teachers are learning from the training may have little impact on teaching. This study is an attempt to find out the lackings of the training provided by TQI-SEP and to what extent the training is effective. To find out the lackings of the training the trainee teachers of 31st batch of TQI-SEP at Government Teacher’s Training College have been interviewed. The teachers were 40 in number. When they went back to their school after completing the training one class of each teacher was observed and surveyed to see the effectiveness of the training. From the data it is found that the training is quiet good but it needs to be developed. And whatever the teachers learned from the training has very little impact on teaching due to some obstacles.