Didactics In Public High Schools In Madagascar

Abstract

To be an English language teacher, one needs several competencies and amongst these, we have decided in this article to inquire about didactics in high schools in Madagascar. Within the last decades, teaching practices have evolved. What are the English Language Teaching practices and teaching difficulties in public high schools in Madagascar? Are Malagasy teachers using teaching and learning skills related to 21st century teaching and learn- ing skills? In this article we will discuss the state of the teaching and learning of English in public high schools in Madagascar through the analysis of the results of the questionnaires that we distributed to 63 teachers of Malagasy public high schools. We used IBM SPSS 21 software for data processing. Our goals are to be able to identify the different didactic issues related to the teaching of English in Madagascar while suggesting to introduce new skills for the teaching and learning of English in the 21st century. Amongst these skills, we have singled out 5Cs: Com- municative skills, Critical thinking, Collaboration, Creativity and imagination and last but not least Culture. In our era, 21st century skills are closely linked to technology so we have also devoted some research on the latter. The work would benefit the in-service teachers and specifically the pre-service teachers of public high schools at the ‘Ecole Normale Supérieure’, University of Antananarivo.