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2.2.1- General objectives

The questionnaire has helped us know how lycées teachers teach conditional sentences in “première” and “terminale” classes and what problems their students have while learning those grammatical structures. Nevertheless, we might be mistaken since some teachers may not give honest responses in the questionnaire, but pretend to be perfect teachers. Consequently, we have chosen to carry out classroom observations. Observation methods are useful to researchers in a variety of ways. They provide researchers with ways to check for nonverbal expression of feelings, determine who interacts with whom, grasp how participants communicate with each other, and check for how much time is spent on various activities (Schmuck, 1997). Therefore, the main purposes of the classroom observations are to know how lycée teachers actually teach conditional sentences and how students react toward the teaching. More precisely, we focused on the communicative and non-communicative aspects of the courses during our observation. The report and analysis of these class observations can be found in chapter 2.2.3.