Iraqi EFL teachers, supervisors and students’ perception of CLT principles and practices at Iraqi schools: A study of its benefits, snags, and future directions

Even though in recent decades a bulk of studies have been accomplished on the use communicative language teaching (CLT) English as foreign (EFL) environments, fairly limited numbers precisely dealt with investigating attitudes teachers, students and supervisors concerning principals CLT context Iraq. Henceforth, this study was designed to delve into learners about implementation. To end, using mixed method design. The present carried out two phases: designing questionnaire plus interviewing (51 learners, 41 teachers 28 supervisors), researcher selected three institutes Al-Diwaniyah findings disclosed that although both groups participants held favorable toward CLT, teacher had significantly higher levels perception regarding tenets terms role grammar, learner’s role, teacher’s error correction evaluation. Nevertheless, no significant differences were found between group/pair work native role.