Challenges faced attitudes developed while learning English as a foreign language: An empirical study of primary school in Munshigonj district.

Abstract

This research looks into the matter of the challenges and attitudes towards learning English as a foreign language for the students in rural areas’ primary schools. In rural areas, English is first introduced at the primary level and the objectives of teaching English language at the primary level are to flourish their learning competence. For this research, the students of primary schools are the target persons. This research finds out the process of learning English language in rural areas’ primary schools. In the very early stage of teaching, it is the responsibility of the teachers to provide the necessary things like classroom materials, posters, flashcards, placards, visual aids for the students to make the class interesting and attractive. The students should know the English language at their very early stage so that they do not face any problem afterwards and they find it easy and amusing. However, the scenario is different in rural areas’ primary schools in comparison with the urban area’s schools. On the contrary, the teachers of primary schools may not have a very good idea in English language because of not having proper training. Most of the teachers do not have any idea how to make the English language class attractive. Besides, the researcher tries to find out the factors that interrupt English language learning and the scenario of primary schools’ learning procedure as well. The researcher always tries to highlight the research topic and explore the problems related to English language learning throughout the interviews with the learners and the teachers as well. Both the students and the teachers played a very important role for data collection procedure. The result of this study is to show the process of learning English as a foreign language in country side’s primary schools.