A comparison of learners’ and teachers’ attitudes toward communicative language teaching at two universities in Vietnam

Abstract

This study compares Vietnamese learners’ and teachers’ attitudes towards Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in terms of four factors: grammar instruction, error correction, group and pair work, and teachers’ role. A questionnaire was administered to 37 teachers and 88 university pre-intermediate to intermediate learners of English in Vietnam, and their responses were compared. The results show that both groups held favorable attitudes towards CLT, but that teacher participants had more positive attitudes than learner participants for all the factors, except group and pair work.