Revue Maghrébine des Langues
Volume 2, Numéro 1, Pages 25-34
2003-12-31
Student Curriculum Counselling The Weakest Link In Efl Syllabi
Authors : Miliani Mohamed .
Abstract
It is not rare to hear Algerian EFL teachers mention a number of culprits (large-size classes, lack of audio-visual aids, high number of inexperienced teachers, shortage of appropriate teaching materials, absence of adequate methodology) to account for the supposed high rate of failure in English departments at university level. This state of affairs is the outcome of the rather large cohorts of unsuccessful students (statistically speaking, the failure rates do not exceed 20% of the total student population per year), but of the quality of their training: i.e., even if students are awarded a ‘licence’ degree, very often their overall proficiency level is lower than is expected from students at the end of a normal learning experience. If knowledge-wise students seem to have accumulated a lot of information, nevertheless, their training is incomplete, their language proficiency below average, their linguistic competence shaky, their communicative competence unsure, their study skills embryonic, and their problem-solving ability minimal.
Keywords
Student Curriculum, EFL
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