MAPPING ENGLISH TEACHERS’ FAVORABLE AND UNFAVORABLE BEHAVIORS AS VOICED BY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

This paper aims to examine English teachers’ favorable and unfavorable behaviors fromviewpoint of high school students, and high school students’ opinions about Englishlesson. The study was carried out with 368 students from different high schools in Siirt.177 of the students were female and the rest 191 students were males, and students fromthe four grades participated in the study. In this study, which was carried out withqualitative data collection technique, students’ written opinions were elicited through astructured interview form consisting of 3 questions. Content analysis procedures wereapplied in order to scrutinize the data. According to the study results, among favorableteachers’ behaviors, the first three ones ranked as follows being caring/understanding/tolerant, being able to teach well and entertaining/humorous. On the otherhand, among unfavorable teachers’ behaviors, the first three ones were found to be harsh,indifferent/insensitive/intolerant and not teaching effectively. Regarding teachingprofession competence areas, favorable behaviors of English teachers in the present studymostly fell into the professional skill area whereas most of the unfavorable behaviorswere in the attitude and value competence area. As to the students’ views about English lesson, it was investigated that female students had more positive opinions towards theEnglish lesson than male students did.