Competency Based Approach and Communicative English Language Teaching and Learning in Yaounde High Schools, Cameroon
Keywords:
Competence, CBA, CELTL, language teachingAbstract
Cameroon is a multilingual country having two official languages English and French. These languages originated as a result of the colonisation of the territory firstly by the Germans then later on by the French and British. The territory was partitioned between France and Britain after the first world war. When the natives decided to reunite, they faced a major problem of language comprehension and communication. Therefor they opted for English and French as official languages implemented in all domains of life including education. Even though the implementation of this law, the problem still persisted. Many teaching and learning approaches were implemented to solve this problem but all efforts were in vain. This approach aims for the development of the communicative competences (grammatical, situational and notional competences) both in the official languages, that is French learners should be able to communicate competently in English and vice versa. So, our main focus or objective is describing the relationship that exist between the CBA and the CELTL because it equally aims at the development of the communicative competence and equally addresses the problem we are faced with. The main question of the research is ‘what relationship exist between the CBA and CELTL? While the secondary questions are what effects and influence does the CBA have on the grammatical, situational and notional competences? In response to these questions a qualitative library research method was used. In this method, we used an analytic grid for data collection whereby CBA syllabus and lesson plans with theCELTL syllabus (framework) and lesson plan was analysed. The results showed that there exists a relationship between the CBA and CELTL in that the Cameroon syllabus influences the communicative competence as well as the CELTL does but it’s not the case with the lesson plans.
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