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The study was planned to answer four research questions: 1. What is teachers´ attitude towards teaching English language in self contained classes? 2. Are teachers competent enough to teach English language in self contained classes? 3. What impact can training bring on self contained teachers and on English language teaching? 4. What is parents´ attitude towards self-contained instruction? The result of the study indicated that teachers were not interested to teach English in self contained class, teachers did not teach English language by integrating other subjects in their self-contained classes. They did not use appropriate teaching aids. Most of the time they depend on textbooks and they did not use different method of teaching such as dance and songs to teach English. Thus teachers were not competent enough to teach English language in self contained classrooms. With regard to training, most of the teachers want in-service training to be promoted and specialized in one subject area rather than staying self-contained teacher. Finally parents lacked good attitude towards self-contained instruction.

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Almaz Afera Adane is a lecturer in the Department of English as foreign language at Debre Birhan Teacher Education and Vocational Training College. She received her BED in TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language) from Bahar Dar University and MA in TEFL from Addis Ababa University. She is currently a PhD student at Addis Ababa University.

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