Novice Teachers' practices in ELT Classroom

Abstract

This research entitled Novice Teachers' Practices in ELT Classroom is an attempt to find out the classroom practices of novice teachers to teach English skill. This study followed survey design. Five teachers of secondary level school and thirty students of the same level were sampled by purposive non random sampling procedure. I used both questionnaire and classroom observation checklist as tools to collect the data. Most of the novice teachers were found to be satisfactory in terms of entering behavior and evaluative behavior. However, they were not found to be satisfactory in terms of instructional behavior. Moreover, the students viewed that their teachers used lesson plan in the classroom but they rarely used teaching material in the classroom. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the topic which includes background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research question, significance of the study, delimitations of the study, and operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter covers review of the theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with the methods and procedure of the study, which includes design of the study, study area, population, sample and sampling strategies, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedures. Likewise, the fourth chapter presents analysis and interpretation of the results and summary of findings. Fifth chapter deals with conclusions and recommendations followed by references and appendices.