Professional Issues for ELT Novice Teacher

Abstract

The present study entitled "Professional Issues for ELT Novice Teachers"is an attempt to find out the professional issues of English novice teachers in EFL context in terms of work related, pedagogical and managerial issues. To fulfil the objectives, I prepared a questionnaire to the teachers and 50 questionnaires were distributed to the novice teachers. Only 20 questions were included in the questionnaire. All the questions in the questionnaire were closed ended andrated with five-level rating scale. Only 46 questionnaires were collected from the novice teachers. The novice teachers were from different schools, linguistic background, ethnic groups, and from different schooling. The findings of the study show that all the participants were found to have focused on various issues. The results indicated that novice teachers experienced work-related issue a little more often than pedagogical and managerial issues. Most of the novice teachers usually, sometimes and rarely experienced work related,pedagogical and managerial issues respectively. This was because 50.00% and 34.78% of the total participants always and usually experienced work-related issues and 43.47% and 41.30% of the total participants rarely and never experienced managerial issues as the issues for novice teachers. This thesis has been divided into four main chapters and many sub chapters.The first chapter deals with general background of the study, review of the related literature, objectives and significance of the study. The second chapter consists of methodology under which sources of data, sampling procedure,research tools, process of data collection and limitations of the study have been included. Similarly, the third chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of data. The fourth chapter consists of the findings and recommendations based on the analysis and interpretation of data. References and appendices are attached at the end.