The Hidden Curriculum : Open Days For Constructing Positive Attitudes Towards Learning Speaking Skill In English

Abstract

Nowadays , EFL teachers focus a lot on objectives , timetables , syllabuses standards and technological devices which are all important issues . However , these form the overt or formal part of curriculum . Learners of English Still encounter difficulties mastering the speaking skill in the FL since they no longer consider such a skill an essential goal of their course . This means that the speaking skill hard to foster as a habit in the minds of EFL learners . It is , consequently , believed , in this study , that such a gap in the teaching and learning of English calls for EFL teachers to deal with the hidden curriculum (henceforth HC) to create learning of the speaking skill that goes beyond the formal classroom environment , deciding activities and requirements to include in order to achieve a real improvement in mastery over speech in English . Specifically , the HC , in this study , involves allotting days outside the formal curriculum , where learners meet freely in order days are called " Open Days " which can highly be regarded throughout the overt or formal curriculum , and through which a learner of English can construct the most desirable attitudes for learning the speaking skill . They comprise many informal advantages that stimulate EFL learners to use the language orally .