EFL Classroom Management Problems in an English Course

Abstract

Achieving target lessons is the aim of teaching learning process. It also requires good classroom management conducted by the teachers. It deals with not only physical aspects but also emotional psychological aspects of the class such as managing the disciplines and rules of the class and maintaining good relationships with the students. They are needed to be concerned in order to create a comfortable learning ambience. In fact, challenges and problems faced by either newbie or experienced teachers, both formal and informal school teachers exist and make the teaching learning process. In the context of the English course, this study is aimed to figure out classroom management problems, the factors causing the problems, and the solutions are done by the teachers to solve the problems. There were 6 English teachers from the English Course as the research participants. Open-ended questionnaires were administered and class observation was conducted to gather the data. After gathering and analyzing the data, 2 major classroom management problems appeared, namely 1) instructional problems, and 2) behavioral and psychological problems. Instructional problems are about the obstacles which make the target lessons difficult to achieve. Meanwhile, behavioral and psychological problems tend to come from the attitude or emotion in the classroom which makes the classroom environment not conducive. More elaboration about each findings, discussions, conclusion, suggestion and limitation of the research are presented deeply in the paper.