EFL Teachers’ Beliefs about Class Teachers’ Influences on English Lessons

Year 2020, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 49 - 65, 22.12.2020

Çiğdem Güneş

Abstract

Foreign language education gained popularity with the globalized world, so that it started to be offered as a compulsory course in primary schools for young learners. Based on this, EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers began to be recruited in primary schools and had to manage several classrooms in a primary school environment each having a different class teacher with its own classroom culture. Due to class teachers’ different ways of teaching and classroom management, it was assumed that primary school students may react in various ways to the weekly EFL lessons. In this study, EFL teachers’ beliefs about the influences of classroom teachers on the English lessons are investigated. For this purpose ten EFL teachers contributed to a semi-structured interview. In order to scrutinize the results, content analysis was conducted and emerging codes were listed in tabular form. The findings showed that EFL teachers who teach in a primary school setting indicated that the class teachers’ teaching styles and attitudes influenced the EFL lessons and the students’ behaviour.

Keywords

teacher cognition, teacher beliefs, primary education, foreign language teaching, english as a foreign language, young learners, class teachers, foreign language learning

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