Unveiling novice english language teachers' classroom management practices in primary school

Abstract

English has been newly implemented in the Algerian primary schools, and the recruited teachers are novice in this new landscape of teaching primary school pupils; therefore, this research study aims at unveiling the teachers’ extent of success of managing their classes successfully. The sample of this study consisted of English language teachers at primary school as well as some inspectors of the same level took part via 24 classroom observations, teachers’ attitudinal questionnaire, and an interview about novice teachers; ability to manage their classrooms. The findings of the study show that novice teachers have poor classroom management specially in terms of managing the children behaviour in the class and in differentiating their instructions to meet the needs of their pupils due to the insufficient training of these teachers and its poor coverage of the major element of the classroom pedagogy