TEACHING OF ENGLISH AT ELEMENTARY LEVEL: COMPARISON OF NOVICE & EXPERIENCED TEACHERS’ TEACHING ATTITUDE

Abstract

The study at hand represents the Comparison of English teaching attitude of senior and junior teachers at elementary level. Basically, this study was designed to inquire the level of English teaching attitude of junior and senior teachers in present life English language learning is mandatory. The main purpose of the study was to determine the attitude of senior teachers towards teaching English. Researcher wanted to compare the attitude of male and female teachers, the attitude of rural and urban teachers, attitude of highly qualified and low qualified teachers towards English teaching. The study was delimited to Sahiwal division of Punjab province of Pakistan. The population of the study comprised of senior and junior teachers working at elementary level in Sahiwal division during academic year 2022-23. A randomly selected sample from 30 school including ten (five males and five female) schools from every district were selected. This study was based on a survey to compare the English teaching attitude of senior and junior teacher at elementary level. The major findings of study were the junior and senior teachers both were not interested in teaching English at Elementary School level. On the same hand PST teachers are better than others and females’ teachers also better than males.