Universite d’antananarivo ecole normale superieure

Figure 8: Graph representing the teachers' biggest problem in teaching conditional sentences

As we look at this graph, we can see that the majority of the respondents have trouble finding interesting topics or realistic situations to teach conditional sentences. We contend two reasons for this problem: the first reason is the lack of teaching materials and the second one is the lack of research on the part of the teachers as most of the English language teachers are used to teaching conditionals in a traditional way. Moreover, there are some teachers (31%) who say that it is difficult to explain conditional sentences only in English. As such, they have to translate the explanation into Malagasy and French. All these findings show that teaching English conditional sentences is not an easy task for EFL teachers, and we can say that it might be more difficult for them to teach conditionals communicatively.