A Study on Job Stress and Coping Strategies of Local English Teachers toward Co-Teaching in Kinmen Elementary Schools

• Main Authors: WANG, TZU-FANG, 王紫芳
• Other Authors: YANG﹐JIN-TAN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58193776894099353694

碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 教育研究所碩士在職專班 === 105 === The purpose of this study is to explore job-stress and coping strategies of local and native English teacher’s co-teaching in Kinmen elementary school level. While every elementary school has one native English teacher in Kinmen County, it also derives how to coteaching between local and native English teachers. The methodology of this study is a qualitative research. The researcher of this study invited four local English teachers of elementary school in Kinmen to join this research project. Data were gathered via semi-structural intensive interviews and analyzed. The results of this study of elementary schools in Kinmen County are shown as follows, 1. The relationship between local and native English teacher’s co-teaching are harmonious. But teaching role, lack of communicate, lack of teaching experience and attitude show job stress for local English teachers. 2. The working stressors of local English teachers include teaching, interpersonal and personal factors. For teaching factor, stressors are “lack of experience in class management with native English teachers”, ” workload excess of teaching “, and “lack of professional skills with native English teachers”. For interpersonal factor, stressors are “lack of communicate with native English teachers”. And personal stressors are “role play “and “self-request”. 3. Different backgrounds of local English teachers have different job stress when they joined co-teaching with native English teachers. 4. The coping strategies most frequently used by local English teachers are “rational-thinking and problem-solving”, “self-adjustment” and “seeking peers’ support”. Finally, educational implications of this study and recommendations teachers and future study are also proposely.