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A quantitative research design is used with a 30-item questionnaire covering three dimensions: CA principles, teachers’ roles in implementing CA, and secondary school EFL students’ motivation when CA is applied. Data from 33 Saudi secondary school teachers show strong understanding and high student motivation, alongside a weaker level of classroom implementation.","| Saudi EFL Teachers’Perceptions ofthe Communicative Approach\u003Cbr>WafiAyedAlthagafi*\u003Cbr>Ministry of Education, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia\u003Cbr>Corresponding author: WafiAyedAlthagafi, E-mail: [wafiaid@gmail.com](wafiaid@gmail.com) |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| ARTICLE INFO | ABSTRACT\u003Cbr>In order to promote language learners’literacy, teachers need to adopt a learner-centered approach, |\n| Article history |  |\n| Received: March 28, 2023 | such as CLT. Thus, the current study aims at investigating the Saudi EFL teachers’ perceptions |\n| Accepted: July 18, 2023 | of the communicative approach (CA, henceforth) . It also scrutinizes to what extent this approach |\n| Published: July 31, 2023\u003Cbr>Volume: 11 Issue: 3 | assists teachers in their teaching practices and enables students to achieve better academic results. The study adopted a quantitative research design. For the sake of data collection, a 30- |\n|  | item questionnaire was utilized. The items were distributed on three dimensions: (1) principles of the CA,(2) teacher’s role in implementing the CA and (3) secondary school EFL students’motivation when CA is implemented. The study included 33 Saudi secondary school teachers. |\n| Conflicts of interest: None |  |\n| Funding: None | The findings ofthe study revealed that teachers have a high understanding of the communicative approach. However, it indicated a lower degree of teachers implementing the approach while teaching. The study found that the students get high motivated when they are taught through the CA. The study recommends special training programs for teachers on CAin order to enable them to teach language skills effectively.\u003Cbr>Key words: English as a Foreogn Language, Saudi Arabia, Communiative approach |\n|  |  |\n\n\n| 1. Organizational competence |  | 2. Pragmatic competence |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| (a) grammatical | (b) textual | (a) illocutionary | (b) sociolinguistic |\n| vocabulary | cohesion | ideational | dialect |\n| morphology | rhetoric | manipulative | register |\n| syntax | organization | heuristic | naturalness |\n| phonology |  | imaginative | culture |\n\n\n| Very high | High | Medium | Low | Very low |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| (Strongly agree) | (Agree) | (Agree to some extent) | (Disagree) | (Strongly disagree) |\n| 4.20-5 | 3.40 – 4.19 | 2.60 – 3.39 | 1.80 – 2.59 | 1.00-179 |\n\n\n| No. Item | Mean | SD | Level of understanding | Order |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 Secondary school learners have a lot of opportunities in pair and group work. | 4.03 | 0.85 | High | 4 |\n| 2 Secondary school EFL teachers waste a lot of valuable time on pair and group work. | 2.70 | 1.21 | Medium | 9 |\n| 3 In pair and group work, secondary school learners get distracted from the actual instruction. | 3.27 | 1.11 | Medium | 7 |\n| 4 Secondary school EFL students learn English effectively when English language is used as a means for teaching forms of the language\u003Cbr>(i.e. grammar, vocabulary) in isolation from contexts of English. | 3.40 | 1.28 | High | 6 |\n| 5 Secondary school EFL students learn English effectively when English is used as a means for doing something, such as greeting, requesting, etc., | 3.97 | 1.03 | High | 5 |\n| 6 The level of the learners’ communicative competence is enhanced by selecting the appropriate and correct English forms. | 4.10 | 0.99 | High | 3 |\n| 7 Teaching English forms should be taught in isolate statements rather than in their context. | 2.90 | 1.42 | Medium | 8 |\n| 8 Secondary school EFL learners must be presented by coherent texts so that they will readily understand them and participate effectively in conversation. | 4.17 | 0.65 | High | 2 |\n| 9 In applying the communicative approach, the Secondary school EFL teacher must teach ONLY the formal style. | 2.20 | 0.92 | Low | 10 |\n| 10 In applying the communicative approach, the Secondary school EFL teacher must teach BOTH the formal and informal style. | 4.20 | 0.92 | So high | 1 |\n| Total score | 3.49 | 1.04 | High |  |\n\n\n| No. | Item | Me","cbCaiiWtHKsFuj22","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiWtHKsFuj22","pdf",267438,2,1,8,"English","en",105,"# Article info\n## Abstract\n## Research method\n## Questionnaire dimensions\n## Participants and results\n## Recommendations","[{\"question\":\"What is the main objective of the study about the Communicative Approach (CA)?\",\"answer\":\"To investigate Saudi EFL teachers’ perceptions of the CA and to examine how it assists teaching practices and helps students achieve better academic results.\"},{\"question\":\"How was data collected and what did the questionnaire measure?\",\"answer\":\"A 30-item questionnaire was used to collect data across three dimensions: CA principles, the teacher’s role in implementing CA, and students’ motivation when CA is implemented.\"},{\"question\":\"What did the findings indicate about teachers and students?\",\"answer\":\"Teachers showed a high understanding of the CA, while implementation levels were lower during teaching. 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