THE REPRESENTATION OF THE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS USED IN ISRAELI ARAB HIGH SCHOOLS
THE REPRESENTATION OF THE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS USED IN ISRAELI ARAB HIGH SCHOOLS

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at investigating teachers' and students' perceptions and levels of satisfaction concerning the oral component of the Communicative Language Teaching as illustrated in the Israeli EFL textbooks. It examines whether the Israeli Arab EFL classroom based on these textbooks leads towards the development of the various communicative (sub)competences, and provides opportunities for meaning negotiation and authentic communication. A quantitative research has been conducted including questionnaires and interviews with both high school English teachers and students. The main findings and conclusions point out that neither teachers nor students are satisfied with the activities provided by the Israeli textbooks in terms of the significance they give to the oral skills, as the linguistic competence is mainly focused on to the detriment of the other competences. Many of the teachers and students in the Arab high schools in Israel are not even aware of all the competences involved in communication.

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