Ascertaining the Effects of Audiolingual and Eclectic Teaching Methods in Beninese EFL Classes: Case Studies of some Porto-Novo Secondary Schools

Abstract

Although the principles of the English morphology instruction carry on increasing to help the unsurpassed teaching for students and supply their requirements, linguistic competence training and learning ought to be revisited. The global objective of this article is to differentiate the effects of audiolingual and eclectic coaching approaches on Beninese EFL learners’ performances and find out the ways and means to make educators apply these effectively. The methodology used is both quantitative and qualitative because questionnaire sheets have been administered to 37 EFL teachers, 33 collected (sample size: 30), 73 English learners, 72 collected (sample size: 61) in addition to the interviews conducted with educational experts (8 interviewees, sample size: 8). The results broadcast predominantly the scarcity of prosperous teaching methods in language classes especially EFL settings. Suggestions made mostly are to foster such educators’ selective usage of semantic focus of sentences besides sound configurations listening and oral communication workouts and prearrangement repetition uniquely in the English language.