IRANIAN EFL TEACHERS' ATTITUDES TOWARD COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING

This study aimed at investigating iranian efl teachers' attitudes toward communicative language teaching (clt). The three main purposes of this study included, first, investigating efl teachers' attitudes toward clt. Second, exploring teachers' underlying reasons for their attitudes. Third, investigating if there is any contradictions between teachers' beliefs toward clt and their practice in classroom. A mixed method approach was used in this study. It was a three-phase research design, starting with quantitative data collection through a questionnaire, followed by two qualitative data collection through interviews and classroom observation. The qualitative phase was used to explain the results of the quantitative phase. The results of this study indicated that generally the iranian efl teachers held favorable attitudes toward principles of clt and displayed characteristics of clt in their beliefs and practices. Not much gap was observed between the teachers' beliefs toward clt and their realized practices in the classroom.