Investigating the Challenges faced by the Algerian Novice EFL Teachers While Managing Large Classes.

Abstract

EFL novice teachers are at the start line of proficiency development. They face many challenges during their first years of teaching that are arduous to deal with and get over as far as large classroom management is concerned. This study aims to determine the challenges faced by EFL novice teachers while managing large classes at middle schools, it tries to suggest some solutions to overcome them. To answer our research question and the requirement of our investigation urge a mixed method that combines both qualitative and quantitative approaches. In order to gather data, a questionnaire was conducted at the Khattel Brothers, Ait Omran, Belahssen Bokoush, and Bey Mohammed Middle Schools in Tiaret. The participants of this research paper are ten EFL novice teachers, seven inspectors and headmasters (2 inspectors, and 5 headmasters). The data obtained from novice teachers' questionnaires, inspectors', and headmasters' interviews revealed that large classroom management caused several challenges to a novice teacher, such as making pupils active in the learning process, having difficulty making the lesson understood by the learners, grouping pupils, and dealing with pupils with different personalities and levels, are the most challenges faced by them. Furthermore, the findings showed that large classroom management depends on strategies and techniques to reduce those challenges as a result of achieving lesson objectives and creating a suitable environment to teach and learn.