The Competency-Based teaching approach: A new expectation at Algerian universities

Abstract

This study investigates the concern of teaching approaches at Algerian universities. It recalls teaching through competencies. The present research enumerates the extent this teaching movement is successful when encountering the university classroom setting. A semi-structured interview was conducted to provide the participants’ measurement of the Competency-Based Teaching implication. Some urgent measures might be claimed to cope with TEFL with this teaching approach. It is noticed that a main finding emerges since the inexistence of a unique teaching model. Each teaching theory is set to be adapted according to particular educational needs, environments, and educational policies. This research focuses on reforms of the teaching of English Language at the level of Algerian universities. Regarding this teaching strategy, there are degrees of legitimate optimism, regardless of what is said and debated. This article tackled some of the reasons and criteria that boost a good learning process through competencies.      

Keywords: Competency; competency-based teaching; Reforms; TEFL