Challenges of English language teaching in village areas of Iranian schools (an empirical study)

Teaching language of English in the Iran context has always been a daunting and challenging task for the simple reason that English is not the first language in this context. Though there are a few Province of excellence where teachers with the native like competence teach English and students who are exposed to such skillful and resourceful teachers do acquire the English language. The methodology, and the skill of the teachers of English in teaching the language has a direct influence on the learning of the language. In particular, the village areas, there are not many teachers of English who have got a good command over the language and thereby they fail either to impart the necessary language skills to the learners. Consist of most of the learners fail to have a good command over the language. Despite the learners having a fairly good knowledge their subject areas in their tongue, they are unable to express themselves in fairly English. In order to overcome the above problem of non-availability of good teachers of English and to teach the learners the required language proficiency, in my view, distance learning for village students can be designed where in experienced and skillful teachers can plan the strategies to teach the learners. I would appreciate the suggestions from all the experienced teachers who have been teaching English. The root to learning English through distance learning for the village students can also be worked.

Keywords:

language teaching , English language teaching , teaching , village