What Is The Problem?

I. THE MAJOR OBSTACLES TO EFFECTIVE LEARNING OF ENGLISH IN HUNGARIAN STATE SCHOOLS

1. ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

a. Most EFL teachers believe that their major role in the classroom is the transmission of information. Their "teaching" results in very boring lessons (to pupils and teachers alike).

• extremely high teacher-talking-time and from very low to none student-talking-time,
• a defensive attitude to both the target language and the pupils,