tailieunhanh - Classroom management in English speaking classes at some high schools in Tuy Hoa city

This study was conducted to investigate the perceptions of students towards classroom management in English speaking classes and the strategies in managing these speaking classes. It employed both the quantitative and qualitative research approaches. | CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT IN ENGLISH SPEAKING CLASSES AT SOME HIGH SCHOOLS IN TUY HOA CITY DANG TRAN QUOC HUNG, LE PHAM HOAI HUONG University of Foreign Languages, Hue University Abstract: This study was conducted to investigate the perceptions of students towards classroom management in English speaking classes and the strategies in managing these speaking classes. It employed both the quantitative and qualitative research approaches. The analysis of data from questionnaire, class observations and interviews indicates the highest agreement from participants for the fact that teachers should correct students’ mistakes in speaking English. Besides, the results from interviews show that the participants emphasized the importance of modifying the negative beliefs and attitudes towards mistakes made by students in speaking English. For classroom management strategies, it was found from the questionnaire that classroom arrangement preferred by most students was group work and pair work. Besides, classroom observations confirmed that English speaking lessons usually had three stages with frequent use of group work and pair work in communicative activities. Keywords: Classroom management strategies, English speaking 1. INTRODUCTION Classroom management refers to all the teachers’ behaviors and classrooms’ organizational elements that result in a traditionally learning environment comprising the established routines, school and classroom rules, teachers’ responses to student behaviors and the discipline (Eggen & Kauchak, 1994, ). It is easy to find the teacher’s dominant role in classroom management. As a result, flexible teachers will be able to alter the selected situations necessarily. Managing English speaking classes Apparently, during a speaking lesson, classroom management strategies of EFL teachers involve interaction between teachers and learners. The literature documents quite a few strategies and techniques which are suggested for EFL teachers to manage .