The difficulties of teaching ''English for Iraq'' from the point of view of teachers of the preparatory stage

الملخص EN

The process of developing foreign language materials has been in a state of flux.

It is an on – going process.

People who work in the field of foreign language teaching and syllabus design have often exerted great and unfailing efforts to develop techniques and procedures to ensure better results to master this human activity.

The emergence of communicative approach to foreign language teaching gave rise to a tendency to write textbooks based on the actual needs of foreign learners in order to make materials more motivating and appealing to them.

Learning a foreign language, especially if this language is a world language, has become a necessity in our modern life.

Being a teacher in a secondary school in Iraq for about ten years, I have noticed that there are certain problems and difficulties faced by Iraqi teachers in handling courses depending on the new coming approach, that is to say the 'Communicative Approach'.

The course being adopted now is the 'English for Iraq' and the one that precedes, which brings the change, both follow the same method in teaching English.

This, in short, has provided the background to the idea of this research.

Hence, it is hypothesized; in part one of the study that teachers of the preparatory stage have certain problems with the new course.

Part one is also allotted to the gathering of the data about the adequacy of the present English program taught in this stage.

In addition to the previous tools, a questionnaire has been administrated to (15) teachers of English in preparatory schools to get at the problems they face in handling the new program taught in this stage.