Iraqi EFL Teachers' Awareness and Use of Micro and Macro-skills

Abstract

English Language learning and teaching  require the mastery  of a set of skills from which  the  four main skills , namely ; listening , speaking , reading and writing .Each one of these four skills has  a set of sub-skills which are referred to as  micro (minor ) skills and macro(major) skills . Knowledge of these sub-skills is necessary for EFL teachers since the process of teaching and testing  English isn’t carried out without having knowledge of these skills .They are thought  as  indispensible  part of the process  of  English language teaching  through which the teachers can set objectives , analyze the lesson , set tests , assign the required time for each activity , etc.  To find out  the Iraqi  EFL language teachers' awareness and use of micro and macro- skills, an interview and a questionnaire are made  to which a sample of Iraqi EFL  teachers are exposed . The obtained results show that Iraqi EFL teachers are unaware of the micro and macro skills  and almost  they don’t use them  in teaching .