Classroom Management: A Persistent Challenge for Pre-Service Foreign Language Teachers
This qualitative descriptive study aimed to ascertain the extent to which classroom management constituted a problem among pre-service foreign language teachers in a teacher education program at a public university in Colombia. The study also sought to identify classroom management challenges, the a...
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2015-07-01
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| description | This qualitative descriptive study aimed to ascertain the extent to which classroom management constituted a problem among pre-service foreign language teachers in a teacher education program at a public university in Colombia. The study also sought to identify classroom management challenges, the approaches to confronting them, and the alternatives for improving pre-service teachers’ classroom management skills. The results revealed that classroom management is a serious problem with challenges ranging from inadequate classroom conditions to explicit acts of misbehavior. Establishing rules and reinforcing consequences for misbehavior were the main approaches to classroom management, although more contact with actual classrooms and learning from experienced others were alternatives for improving classroom management skills. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-45b2f7d809eb427a83d70b631d7bb3942025-08-20T02:17:45ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaProfile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development1657-07901657-07902015-07-011728199http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/profile.v17n2.43641Classroom Management: A Persistent Challenge for Pre-Service Foreign Language TeachersDiego Fernando Macías0Jesús Ariel Sánchez1Universidad SurcolombianaEE Miller Elementary, FayettevilleThis qualitative descriptive study aimed to ascertain the extent to which classroom management constituted a problem among pre-service foreign language teachers in a teacher education program at a public university in Colombia. The study also sought to identify classroom management challenges, the approaches to confronting them, and the alternatives for improving pre-service teachers’ classroom management skills. The results revealed that classroom management is a serious problem with challenges ranging from inadequate classroom conditions to explicit acts of misbehavior. Establishing rules and reinforcing consequences for misbehavior were the main approaches to classroom management, although more contact with actual classrooms and learning from experienced others were alternatives for improving classroom management skills.http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/43641Classroom managementforeign languagepre-service teachersteacher education |
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