A Comparative Study on Teaching English in the Bengali and English Medium Schools in Bangladesh

Abstract

English and Bengali medium of educational system plays an important role in a developing country like Bangladesh. The dynamic education system is still looking for a dependable and long-term serving curriculum and testing system of teaching and learning. The purpose of the paper is to find out the gap of using the CLTA curriculum with the text used and actually which methods or approaches are being followed to teach English. The instrument is teacher questionnaires and researcher’s classroom observation checklist to find out the answer of research questions. The findings concern to reveal the actual method or approach that has been practiced in Bangladesh and the gap of CLTA curriculum-based education with the practical method or approach that has been practiced. These findings are supported by the findings of the researcher’s own checklist except for a few differences.