Teachers’ Perception of Students’ Misbehavior and Assertive Discipline in English Classroom

Jeya Sarkunan Jaya Thilagaratnam,Hamidah Yamat

doi:10.32996/ijels.2021.3.3.2

Jeya Sarkunan Jaya Thilagaratnam, Hamidah Yamat

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https://doi.org/10.32996/ijels.2021.3.3.2

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Students’ misbehavior has become one of the major problems in the English language classroom and affects the teaching and learning process. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the teachers’ perception of students’ misbehavior and if it really affects their teaching process and the students’ learning process. The Qualitative methodology was used to collect data for this study. The main mode of data collection instruments used for this study was Teachers’ Interview, Observation and Students’ Interview, in which the data was triangulated to counter biases. The Interview questions focused on the teachers’ perception of students’ misbehaviour and how it disrupts their English language lesson. The teachers were also asked about their perception of assertive discipline approach. Observation was done, and a field note was created based on the happenings in the specific observed class. To round it up, the students' perception of their behavior and the classes’ environment was collected. It was evident that the teachers’ perception towards students’ misbehavior was a disruption to their lesson. It was primarily based on the student's lack of interest and discipline towards learning English.

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Students’ misbehavior has become one of the major problems in the English language classroom and affects the teaching and learning process
Students are often interrupted by the lack of motivation which eventually leads to behavioral problems that will disrupt the language learning process.Academic discipline is very important as per their argument because without it, the language learning process will be disrupted, leading the students to demotivation factors
It was clear that the students find it not comfortable in the class with the English lesson and the basis of discipline was very poor, which even more triggered them to misbehave during the lesson

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Students’ misbehavior has become one of the major problems in the English language classroom and affects the teaching and learning process. The Interview questions focused on the teachers’ perception of students’ misbehaviour and how it disrupts their English language lesson. Observation was done, and a field note was created based on the happenings in the specific observed class To round it up, the students' perception of their behavior and the classes’ environment was collected. It was evident that the teachers’ perception towards students’ misbehavior was a disruption to their lesson It was primarily based on the student's lack of interest and discipline towards learning English. Hossain (2018), in his research study, stated that English language learning has a different structure, different rules and system in which the students would require a decent amount of time and determination to acquire the language. The objective of this research is to describe from a teacher’s perspective how students misbehavior affects an English language classroom and a relatable research question which can be asked is “What are teachers’ perception on the effects of students misbehavior in an English classroom?”

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