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2.2.2- Context of the observations

The observations were carried out during the third trimester of the school year 2015- 2016. We have asked the English teachers in “première” and “terminale” classes at Lycée Andohalo Antananarivo and Lycée Jules Ferry Faravohitra if we can observe their class during the teaching of conditional sentences. Unfortunately, few teachers accepted to cooperate with us. Some teachers said that they had already taught conditional sentences before the third trimester as they rushed to finish the syllabus. Besides, some teachers were busy advising their teacher trainees as it was the trimester for teaching training. Finally, some just said that they do not like being observed by other teachers when they teach. Owing to these reasons, we have only carried out five (05) classroom observations with five (05) different teachers from those two lycées. However, we can say that we were satisfied for the cooperation with those five teachers because they were all aware of our research topic and tried to do their best to teach what we intended to observe.