Indiscipline in Young EFL Learner Classes

This book sheds new light on classroom indiscipline by listening to the voices of both the teachers and the young learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). By focusing on data from multiple sources, chapters in this volume offer a thorough description of undisciplined learner acts, a framework for categorizing indiscipline types, an exploration of perceived causality beyond the observable behavior, and of management strategies and their evaluation by teachers and children. The author offers practical guidance on creating a disciplined EFL learning classroom atmosphere through multilateral educational aims and processes. This book is a point of reference for academics, researchers, university students, educators and teacher trainers who wish to enhance the design and implementation of reliable multi-lens qualitative case studies on the subject. With its elucidating and transformative power, it inspires further innovative research and practical initiatives for the understanding and successful management of child indiscipline in diverse EFL learning contexts.

Provides a detailed description of indiscipline in child English as a Foreign Language Learners Offers in-depth coverage of the research approach, methods and techniques that support a systematic study of the problem Establishes negative young EFL learner behaviour as an educational problem whilst showing areas in which EFL classrooms differ significantly from mainstream L1 classrooms

Autorentext

F. V. Kuloheri is an experienced EFL teacher at the Greek Ministry of Education, Greece. She is a mentor, educational researcher, author, and an oral examiner for the State EFL Certificate. She holds a doctorate in Education (Warwick University, UK), an MA in Applied Linguistics (University of Essex, UK), a BA in English and Greek Language and Literature (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), and an RSA DOTE with a Distinction. She is Ambassador for the educational program 'teachers4europe', Representation of European Commission, Greece.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Globalized TEFL Boom.- Chapter 2: Child Education, Discipline and EFL Learning.- Chapter 3: YEFLL Indiscipline: Perceptions about Typology.- Chapter 4: YEFLL Indiscipline: Perceptions about Causality.- Chapter 5: YEFLL Indiscipline: Perceptions about Management.- Chapter 6: YEFLL Indiscipline: Research Matters.