Teacher perceptions on classroom management in teaching English as a foreign language


Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Uludağ Üniversitesi, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2002

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: EBRU MELEK DALOĞLU

Danışman: ÇİĞDEM KARATEPE

Özet:

This study is conducted to investigate the perceptions of teachers on particular aspects of classroom management such as beginning the lesson, time management, lesson planning, motivating the students and student misbehaviours. The data is gathered from 142 subjects who are grouped into four according to the amount of 'teaching experience' they have: 1) The Trainee 2)The Novice 3) The Experienced I and 4) The Experienced II groups. Observation, questionnaire and interviews are the data collection instruments which are used in the study. For the analysis of the data descriptive statistics, item analysis and correlation are used. According to the analysis all teacher groups seem to regard amount of teaching experience and planning as important factors in classroom management. However, the results indicate that teacher groups have different strategies when making a lesson plan; while inexperienced teachers prefer to make detailed written plans, the more experienced ones make plans mentally or in the format of an outline. In addition, the study reveals that the teachers who have less amount of teaching experience have more difficulty in motivating students and making them participate in the lessons actively. In addition, teacher groups have significantly different perceptions in terms of the strategies they use to persuade the students to participate in the lesson actively. It is an interesting finding that teachers in the experienced groups seem to use pair work and group work activities in the classroom more often. The results also reveal that teacher groups have different perceptions and strategies in terms of coping with the student misbehaviours especially when dealing with the students who are not interested in the lesson.