Exploring Disruptive Behaviours of Students and Their Management in ELT Classroom

Abstract

The present thesis is entitled Exploring Disruptive Behaviours of Students and their Management in ELT Classroom aimed to find out disruptive behaviours of students and management techniques used by ELT teachers. To achieve the objectives a set of questionnaire was a tool used for the collection of data. Thirty secondary and lower secondary English teachers from ten different schools were the sample of the study. A set of questionnaire was distributed to each teacher. The data were collected through non random purposive sampling procedure. Keeping these objectives in consideration, the data were collected from the sample teachers. The data were analysed and interpreted both qualitatively and quantitatively. After the analysis and interpretation of data, most of the teachers found the common distruptive behaviours in ELT class were laughing, teasing, shouting, poking, side talking, throwing papers, asking unnecessary questions, pushing and kicking friends. Teachers' techniques used to handle those problems were personal counsel, case study, speaking politely, keeping record, parents meet and reporting school code and conduct. The researcher found the teachers used different strategies to handle over those problems. This thesis consists of five chapters. Introduction is introductory chapter. This chapter includes background information of the study, statement of problem, objectives of the study, significance of study, delimitations of study, research questions and operational definition of key terms. Chapter two consists of Review of related literature, review of related empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. Chapter three discusses the design and method of the study, sampling procedure, data collection tools and procedure and Data analysis and interpretation. Chapter four concludes major findings, conclusions and recommendations of the study. The fifth chapter includes conclusions and recommendations along with policy related, practice related and further research related recommendations. Finally the references and appendices have been included.