A Study of Teachers Stress in Teaching English as a Second Language

ISBN-13: 9783659146831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 80 str.

Mehwish Naz; Aisha Iqbal; Sher Aslam

Opis

Teaching is a very rewarding profession but it has its stressful elements too. Inspections, assessments, reports, workshops are all potentially stressful areas. The purpose of the present study was to measure the stress of Elementary teachers. The questionnaire was consisted on different sections; the factors of stress for the teachers, effects of stress and techinques which are used by the teachers to relieve their stress. After the analysis of data, results showed that the stress factor decreased the teachers efficiency. The most stressful item for the teachers was students less attention in English learning.The other causes were pronunciation and grammar problems, lack of vocabulary, lesson plannig, work sheets and training etc. The most common effects of stress on teachers were fast heart beat, headache and exhausted respectively. Stress relief items used by the teachers were saying prayer, reading newspapers and talking to friends & family members respectively. Stress should be decreased with proper guidance, training, workshops relating English teaching, disciplines and full attention of the teachers to English language and their profession.

O autorze

The auther of this book Mehwish Naz is distiction holder and national talent scholarship holder. she has secured 1st position in the Kasur in her matriculation. Aisha iqbal is gold medalist and has got talent scholarship twice in IER Department university of the punjab. Sher Aslam is Ph.D scholar at NCBA&E Lahore Pakistan.