. Most of them don’t exert their energies to bring students to a certain level
of understanding when they start formulating rules by themselves. They are in favor
of indirect approach but teach by using grammar translation method to save their
energies. They have a reasonable amount of knowledge, know what is right and
what is wrong but due to a limited amount of training and lack of professional
development they are afraid of change. Their approaches are conventional and
structural, in contrast to what they claim to have. Their beliefs no doubt have covered
all the five areas- beliefs about learners and learning, teaching, subjects or
curriculum, learning to teach, and about the self and the nature of teaching. These
five areas are interconnected as Calderhead (1996 cited in Mohammad 2006)
sustained