Teachers and Learners’ Perception of the Effects of Crowded Classrooms on the Development of Students’ Writing Performance

Abstract

Classroom is the basic unit in any educational system, where both teaching and learning pro-cesses take place. In recent years, classroom size especially of the EFL classes is progressive-ly extended. This leads to the appearance of the crowding phenomenon. This phenomenon has a great effect on teaching-learning process. As it is well known, Writing is a sophisticated skill that requires practice and effort from both teachers and learners. In fact, teaching and learning this skill in a crowded class is a hard and a challenging task. For this sake, this re-search is conducted to investigate the teachers and learners perspectives on the effects of crowded classrooms on the development of students' writing performance. Indeed, in order to achieve reliable answer to the research problem three peripheral questions are imposed basing on the hypothesis. In order to validate the research hypothesis, the present study was con-ducted by using questionnaires for both teachers and learners. A questionnaire was submitted to forty master one students, and a questionnaire was submitted to nine Written Expression teachers in the English Department at Mila University Centre. The results of the research instrument detected that the crowded classroom has a negative effects on the development of students' writing performance. Consequently, the hypothesis of this research was confirmed.