Iraqi EFL Teachers' Perception of Classroom ehaviours at Secondary Schools
Abstract
Education plays a leadership role in all aspects of life.
By providing the quality education one can produce quality
products through adopting an effective academic behaviour
in educational process. “Behaviour” is defined as the action
or activities of an organism that is anything that an organism
does, including physical action, internal physiological and
emotional processes and implicit mental activity. The focus
on behaviour is important in the teaching process for no one
has complete control over his feelings or his personality .
For a teacher, s/he should have control over most of his / her
actions. So, those actions and decisions which generate them
contribute to successful teaching. Teaching can in fact, be
defined as conscious behaviour that makes learning more
probable and more efficient than it would have been without
that behaviour. Teaching behaviour can range from a simple
smile or pat that encourages the learner to a superbly
designed, programmed presentation of a complex process
that results in predictable, efficient and effective learning.
As for teacher behaviour and learner's behaviour, it is
obvious that a complex interaction occurs in teaching. The
decisions and actions of a teacher affect the learning
process. The teacher’s observation of the learner or previous
knowledge about him affects the teaching process (Shafqat
2009:xv). The present research, therefore, aims at:
1- assessing EFL Iraqi teachers' perception of classroom
behaviours at secondary schools,
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