Abstract:
ABSTRACT
This study was conducted with the objective of investigating the practice of lesson plan
preparation and implementation of EFL teachers in the classroom. All grade 9-12 English
language teachers were selected using comprehensive sampling technique. Grade 11
English language teachers for classroom observation and three grade 12 language
teachers and three school principals for interview were selected purposively. The required
data for the study were collected through, questionnaire, interview, classroom observation
and document analysis. Simple descriptive statistics was used to analyze the quantitative
data. On the other hand, thematic analyses were employed to analyze the qualitative data.
The result revealed that teachers did not implement their lesson plans properly and
clearly, following the principles in ELT literature, Related to teachers’ preparation of
daily lesson plan based on the three domains of Bloom’s Taxonomy, teachers did not
consider all domains.Only few of teachers tried to practice their role by implementing it
by categorizing different domains and this is also checked by the document analysis.
Establishing teachers’ interest about the preparation and implementation of daily lesson
plan, majority of the English language teachers responded that they never had an interest
for preparing lesson plan. Results from the observed teachers and the interviewee
respondents that, they did not use their daily lesson plan as frequently as expected.
Finally, it is recommended that teachers should make the necessary preparation and
implementation of the lesson plan. And the concerned body should also take the necessary
actions to improve teachers’ preparation and implementation.
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