Résumé:
Core values play a vital role in shaping students’ character and guiding their social, moral, and
civic development. They are central to the concept of the exit profile which outlines
competencies and attitudes that students are expected to embody upon completing a cycle of
education. In recent years, the Algerian educational reform supports value-based teaching, and
emphasises the integration of core values into the English curriculum. This study attempts to
investigate EFL middle school teachers’ perspectives toward integrating core values in their
teaching to examines their educational practices. It highlights the importance of integrating
core values to foster students’ personal and academic development. By exploring teachers’
willingness, understanding, and methods of fostering these values, the research addresses the
specific challenges and responsibilities faced by Algerian middle school EFL teachers in
nurturing core values. Hence, a mixed research method which consisted of an online
questionnaire for middle school EFL teachers and an interview for a middle school English
inspector was adopted. The questionnaire was administered via Google forms to70 middle school
EFL teachers across the districts of Guelma, while the interview was conducted with middle
school English inspector. The result of the analyses of teachers’ questionnaire and the inspector
interview shows that Algerian middle school EFL teachers indeed have positive attitude toward
the integration of core values and they integrate them in their lessons intentionally and
intuitively, but some of them face obstacles concerning explicit guidance, they lack clear teaching material
and effective assessment tools.
