EFL Teachers’ Beliefs about the Project Work under the Competency-Based Approach

Abstract

The adoption of a competency based approach in teaching/learning English as a foreign language entails the direct application of “Project Work” as a tool for competency development and evaluation. Project work, in essence, helps learners gain practice, achievement and autonomy in learning tasks. However, despite the theoretical positive attributes allotted to the project work, its practical process is still unclear for most EFL teachers in the secondary school. In other words, its implementation and evaluation are largely subject to teachers’ beliefs and convictions. Therefore, this study attempts to make the project work’s realization more methodical and reliable so as to ensure its success in the EFL context. This can be done by improving the way the project work is assigned by suggesting a list of recommendations to be followed by these teachers. In addition, a detailed checklist is provided for them to make its evaluation more systematic and, thus, more effective.