PEDAGOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND METHODOLOGY CHOICE AMONG EFL TEACHERS IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN IRAN

Clt has been widely explored and studied by many researchers in the field of english language teaching. There have been many studies conducted on the use of clt in efl settings. However, there are only few studies in number that specifically deal with clt and its implementation in the iranian high schools. Hence, this study was designed to investigate to what extent the tenets of clt are practiced in iranian high school english classes. To this end, 50 iranian male and female language teachers, teaching at high schools in isfahan were observed while teaching english in their classes. A questionnaire based on karavas- doukas (1996) was also used. It was shown that although the language teachers to a great extent agreed with the principles of clt, in practice the language teachers at iranian high school were observed not to follow these principles. This study has implications for the ministry of education and language teachers.