English teachers perceptions on teacher induction

Abstract

This present research entitled English Teachers‟ Perceptions on Teacher Induction aimed to find out English teachers‟ perceptions on teacher induction, to find out the helps that novice teachers got in their initial phase and to identify the challenges faced by English teacher in their induction phase. Keeping the objectives in centre, thirty English teachers both novice and experienced were selected as respondents through non-random purpose sampling procedure. A questionnaire including both open-ended and close-ended questions was the main tool for the data collection. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted descriptively and statistically in different sections. The major findings of this study are that induction programs are very important and useful for teachers to solve different kinds of challenges and problems. Most of the teachers found facing different problems like adjustment in new culture and society due to the lack of teacher induction in the first year of their teaching career. Most of the teachers viewed that they got the induction in the initial phase but a few teachers viewed that they did not get the induction which made them difficult to be familiar with the culture and society This thesis has been divided into five chapters. The first chapter deals with background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter contains the review of related of related literature namely theoretical literature, empirical literature and conceptual framework. Likewise, the third chapter deals with the design and methods of the study, population, sample, sampling strategy, research tools, sources of the data, data collection procedures and ethical considerations. And the fifth chapter of the study consists of finding, conclusion and recommendations in policy related, practice related and further researcher related. At last references and appendixes are included.