Sustainable development of EFL teachers’ skills towards communication
Keywords:
Techniques, EFL majors, Communicative abilities, Vocabulary acquisition, Long-term growth, Language communicative abilitiesAbstract
A fundamental tenet of EFL training is the notion that students can concurrently learn a new language and important subject through sustainable development. As a counterweight to teaching methods that place more emphasis on output skills of communication than other traditional methods, sustainable development has emerged as a skill-focused approach where language acquisition is a tool to absorb meaningful knowledge. The goal of the current study was to ascertain if a methodology course that uses a sustainable development and language-skills learning paradigm may improve EFL majors' communication abilities and vocabulary acquisition.
The sample consisted of 15 EFL educators from different Babylonian schools. The study employed a pretest-posttest one-group design to collect quantitative data utilizing two communication skills and subject vocabulary learning tests. According to the study's findings, the sustainable development and language-skill learning paradigm had positive effects on participants' communication abilities and post-test scores for subject vocabulary acquisition. The findings were analyzed in light of the current debate regarding the role that sustainable development plays in helping students (educators) learn through language as they develop subject comprehension, listening, speaking, reading and writing to learn about the language in the context of language learning, and use language in a meaningful and intentional way.
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