Teacher training : the effectiveness of workshops in English language teaching

الملخص EN

In-service teacher training is necessary for teachers to be experts and innovators through regional and national meetings.

Workshops, the corner stone in teacher education, promote language teaching and provide teacher-friendly strategies to cope with the neck breaking changes our classes.

Based on the fact that English language instruction lacks creativity at the level of secondary schools in Mascara, this paper explores the effectiveness of workshops in refining the teaching learning process.

Qualitative as well as quantitative approaches were used to collect data and to ensure triangulation by using an observation, an English inspectors' questionnaire, and FGD (Focused Group discussion) with novice student- teachers.

An analysis was then conducted to pull out the findings of the study which showed that even though inspectors organize seminars, workshops in their actual meaning are no longer administered to help adapt and improve teaching.

As a result, the researcher provides a set of procedures the leaders should follow to achieve the intended objectives of a given workshop.

The use of a computer mediated communication is suggested to avoid time constraints as well as to promote collaboration among teachers.