Enlivening Kurdish University EFL Classes with Constructivism
Keywords:
Constructivism, EFL, instructional applicationsAbstract
Conventional pedagogical approaches may not be the supreme way to satisfy learners' needs in higher education settings. Learners at this level have special expectations and professional prospects. Besides, in our ever-changing world, we rarely find jobs are being done in the same way they were done a decade ago. One of these jobs or professions is teaching. The way we teach needs to be different from how our teachers taught us. Therefore, teachers need to adopt appropriate pedagogical approaches and constantly update and validate their teaching methods and techniques to fulfil their students' needs in this ever evolving world.
This descriptive study intends to explain how the researchers employed the principles of constructivism, a learning theory, into teaching reading to Kurdish EFL learners with the intent of developing their students’ vulnerable reading. Accordingly, the study provides a detailed description of the daily practices of constructivist principles inside class and portrays how activities were performed. The study intends to focus on the classroom practices and expounds the facts concerning the real current EFL status in Kurdish higher education setting. All of this is done to give a boost to the status of EFL in Kurdistan Region and nourish their needs. The results of the study testify the assumption that the application is expedient to cultivate students’ reading skills and make proper judgments. The study ends up with putting forward some conclusions.
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