Attitudes on classroom management among EFL teachers in private and state primary and high schools

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, SOSYAL BİLİMLER ENSTİTÜSÜ, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2008

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: Özlem Kurumehmetoğlu

Danışman: ZÜBEYDE SİNEM GENÇ

Özet:

This study investigated the beliefs of the teachers about classroom management in EFL classes in both private and state primary and high schools. The focus of the study was on the possible problems in classroom management and how to deal with them.55 English language teachers at different twenty primary schools and fifteen different high schools in Bursa, Turkey, participated in this study as subjects. They were given a questionnaire. The data was gathered during the autumn of the 2007-2008 academic year.The results revealed that English language teachers believed that the students aren't interested in English lessons, the students are unmotivated and the students talk very much. These are the most common problems for the classroom management that the teachers believed and faced to face everyday in their language classes. The findings divulged that there have been various problems related to those such as, cheating, teacher talk, giving instructions, keeping the students on task, the importance of the voice and the body language of the teachers, the effects of the large and crowded classes, motivation, the teachers? roles, management of the time.Since these findings in this study are limited to these kinds of problems in twenty different primary schools and different fifteen high schools in Bursa, Turkey, it may not be completely true to generalize the results of this research. However, it may give a general idea about the subjects? beliefs and the some common problems of the EFL classes for the classroom management in both private and state primary and high schools.