Oral-competency : a drawback of CBLT in Algeria

Abstract EN

Algerian Educational System has been canstantly revised in order to cope with the continious requirements exposed by the new world of technology and innovation.

Accordingly, a deep reform had been launched by Algerian Education Authorities as a response to the political, social, cultural, linguistic and pedagogical needs.

In fact, Competency-Based Teaching had been 'quickly' introduced in Algerian School as an effective and convinient approach to hold on these preoccupations and successfully reach the final objectives of the curricula.

However, Algerian School failled to improve the oral-competency due to various factors as far as English as a Foreign Language Teaching /learning is concerned.

This paper is an attempt to look for the reasons behind this drawback.

A survey, then, is conducted as a methodological tool for data collection.

It is addressed to Secondary Education English teachers of Bechar.

Moreover, an analytical study of some exams and tests especially Final Official exams is another data collection method used in this study.

The latter shows that although oral-competency is one of the outstanding outcome of CBLT, faillure to enhance it is accounted for by time allowted to English teaching in S.

E.

S and most importantly to the total ence of oral-competency account in the Testing System.

Administered exams and tests especially the final official BAC exam (baccalaureat) don't give any account to the oral competency, the fact that often rsults in demotivated learners to produce orally in English.