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.
