The Effect of Bilingual Environment on the Achievement of Primary Pupils: Teachers' View Point 10.35781/1637-000-109-007

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the effects of bilingual education on the learning achievement of sixth primary grade pupils in the English section among private schools in the Capital City of Sana'a- Yemen. The data were collected through an open interview and a closed questionnaire carried out to twenty-five teachers (who have at least five years of experience in teaching sixth-grade in private schools). The sample is selected and based on a criterion-specific method from the target private schools. The collected data were analyzed using the SPSS Software. Several findings have been revealed, the most common of which are that the target pupils encounter several obstacles, including limited opportunities for practicing English outside school, parental weak background in the English language and the use of the mother tongue outside the school environment. This negatively influences the studying performance of the pupils, putting much more societal pressures on them, and restricting their way of using the English language communicatively. Besides, the difficulties faced by the target pupils in understanding certain studying subjects, especially the scientific ones, lead the pupils to resort to the use of the mother tongue to understand such difficulties and overcome the faced obstacles.