A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Award of the degree "Licencié en Pédagogie Appliquée, agrégé de l'enseignement secondaire en anglais"

Résumé,

This study states an assessment of problems encountered by Basic School Language Teachers in Burundi Education system. It was conducted in Cibitoke in Buganda Commune in order to check if pupils and English teachers in seventh grade face problems during teaching and learning process. So as to reach reliable results, four hypothese drive this study : they are many difficulties that handicap English teaching and learning ; pupils have varying attitudes towards English ; pupils' home background has a big impact on their English language performance ; lack of teaching and learning materials contributes to poor performance in English.

Besides, teachers and pupils questionnaires, teachers' interview and classroom observations guided this research. In this study, the researcher took 1/5 as sample to represent the whole population. After finding analysis, all the hypotheses have been confirmed. First, it was proven that there are no qualified teachers.
Also, pupils manifest positive attitude towards English. Besides, it was proven that pupils from wealth and literate families evolve well than others. Furthermore, it was confirmed and observed that classrooms have no sufficient and necessary teaching materials.