An Iranian View on Linguistic Competence in Using a Foreign Language

A Survey Among High School Graduates Who Have not Attended Private Language Institutes

Abstract

Throughout the recent three decades no major changes have been observed in the Iranian educational curricula and textbooks of foreign language teaching. Nor has there been any significant change in the teaching methods while numerous reforms can be traced in the field of foreign language teaching in the world. The current research attempts to study various aspects of language competence of several graduates of secondary schools who have not taken language courses in private institutions. The research aims to find out the capacity of the academic educational system of Iran to teach students English appropriately.