The Working Experience Impact on The Iraqi In-Service Teachers’ Perception of Managing FL Classes

Abstract

The study intended to examine the impact of working experience on the Iraqi secondary school teachers’ perception of the importance of managing FL classes. It also tested the null hypothesis that the FL teachers’ working experience does not affect the ways in which FL classes are managed. The mixed method of quantitative and qualitative approach was selected as a research design for the present study. In terms of quantitative approach, the current study used descriptive statistics by computing the mean scores, frequency and standard deviation, lower and maximum scores of the Iraqi teachers’ responses to the examined questionnaire. It used one-way analysis of variance ANOVA to determine the statistical significance in the variance of perceiving management of FL classes among the Iraqi secondary school teachers. In terms of qualitative approach, the participants’ responses were descriptively analyzed.  The present study randomly selected 100 Iraqi secondary school teachers working at five different schools located in Al Nasiriyah City south of Iraq. They were asked to respond to a twenty-item questionnaire to express their perception of managing FL classes. The results indicated that Iraqi secondary school teachers varied in their perception of managing FL classes where working experience had a significant contribution to account for that variance.