Résumé:
This dissertation’s aim is to investigate teachers’ attitudes towards teaching autistic learners
foreign languages and engaging them in mainstream schools .This research introduces Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD) general background. Afterwards, it describes the importance and
the benefits of including autistic pupils in general schools. Also, it explains the most
beneficial strategies of supporting and motivating autistic students which may help them
positively in improving themselves, ameliorating their behaviours, and facilitating their
therapies. To realise this researches’ aims and to test research hypothesis, a questionnaire was
transmitted to three middle schools Mlayem Mouhamed , Bougaren Mouhamed ,and Souahi
Madeni to ten teachers of English to know whether they do have positive or negative attitudes
towards teaching autistic learners in EFL classrooms . Furthermore, an observation was
conducted during teaching English language to ensure autistic students ability in acquiring
languages as any normal students and behaving appropriately in classrooms. The research
findings reveal that the majority of teachers who participated in this study show positive
attitudes towards the importance of teaching autistic students foreign languages, but just half
of the representative population accept and encourage engaging them in general schools ,and
the other half percentage of teachers reject totally the idea .In addition to that ,it is observed
that autistic learners react properly in English sessions ,but do face difficulties in interacting
in general classrooms effectively .
