Investigating EFL teachers' perspectives towards using extracurricular activities in developing secondary school students' performance in learning English language
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EFL Teachers' Perspectives, Extracurricular Activities, Students' PerformanceAbstract
This study aims to investigate EFL teachers' perspectives towards using extracurricular activities in developing secondary school students' performance in learning English language. To achieve the aim of the study, the researchers conduct a survey of a questionnaire. The participants were 340 (235 females and 105 males) EFL teachers from the public schools in the Second Al-Karkh General Directorate of Education in Baghdad, Iraq during the academic year 2020-21. The design of the study is a quantitative descriptive study which based on a questionnaire to collect the data. After analyzing the data, the results revealed that EFL teachers have positive perspectives toward applying extracurricular activities in developing secondary school students' language performance. There are no statistically significant differences in the Iraqi EFL teachers' perspectives towards applying extracurricular activities in developing secondary school students' language performance due to the gender (males and females) variable.
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