Teacher Development in Middle School English Language Education:

Abstract

assumptions and approaches that imposed methods and techniques to approaches that need teachers to constantly reflection their own practices and develop professionally. Today, teacher professional development is needed more than ever before. The educational reform in Algeria has called for changes in instructional practices to improve the quality of teaching. This research work investigates the issue of teacher development by middle school teachers of English. It discusses the way these teachers develop both professionally and emotionally, and examines whether factors such as gender, age and experience have an impact on their development. A study was conducted with two inspectors of English and forty-eight teachers teaching in ten different middle schools of the Chlef area, Algeria.