This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Arts in Program in English.

             The main purpose of this research was to investigate the English teaching problems of English teachers in government primary schools in Chittagong and to bring out teacher’s opinion on additional ways to solve the problems discussed in the research.

             The following research is based on a documentary research, questionnaire and interview. The study can be divided into three stages: (1) studying the problems relating English teaching, English teacher’s needs and their attitude towards their problems; (2) collecting and analyzing the data for the pursuit of meeting the objectives and the research questions; (3) drawing the conclusion from the collected data to answers the questioned posed in the research.

             The study begins with by exploring the background of the educational system of Bangladesh. The middle part of the thesis deals with the investigation of present situation of teaching English in the government primary schools in Chittagong.

             The data was collected from a variety of primary and secondary sources, research papers, personal interviews and reports from professional seminars and magazines. Under the investigation was also the texts related with the government primary school books and thesis dealing with the development of educational system in the primary schools in Chittagong.

             The final part of the thesis focuses on the findings from interviews and through analyzing those data. The study provides important information on English teachers subjective opinion on English teaching problems and how to overcome those challenges.

             Conclusions are drawn and suggestion for further research are made. 

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