STATE OF PLAY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS’ LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN MADAGASCAR

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

The Ecole Normale Supérieure of Antananarivo, also known as ENS, is a state University in charge of training teachers to teach in high schools of Madagascar. Though within the last few years, many teachers from other universities and from diverse sectors were recruited as teachers, which raises our curiosity about the uniformity of the pedagogical background and language skills of English Language Teachers in high schools. The professional skills required to be a language teacher are numerous but above all, language skills remain one of the most important ones for teaching a language, particularly the English language. This article discusses the result of an inventory of the language proficiency of in-service teachers in public high schools in Madagascar. The survey aims to find out about the level of language proficiency of teachers in public high schools in Madagascar and the challenges in maintaining English proficiency. For the processing of the results of the questionnaire, we used the statistical software IBM SPSS 21. The discussion revolves around the main difficulties of the Malagasy teachers in high schools in town and in the regions of Madagascar in the practice of English. We noticed that ‘Listening’, and ‘Speaking’ are the most difficult skills to master and also the least exploited in high schools, as far as English teaching and learning in high schools in Madagascar is concerned.

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