Indiscipline in Young EFL Learner Classes

This book sheds new light on classroom indiscipline by listening to the voices of both the teachers and the young learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). By focusing on data from multiple sources, chapters in this volume offer a thorough descript

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Indiscipline in Young EFL Learner Classes

Foteini-Vassiliki Kuloheri

Indiscipline in Young EFL Learner Classes

Foteini-Vassiliki Kuloheri Greek Ministry of Education Athens, Greece

ISBN 978-1-137-52192-7 ISBN 978-1-137-52193-4 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-52193-4

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Dedicated to my husband, George

Acknowledgments

I am indebted to many individuals who during my personal and professional life have helped me to follow my dreams. First, I am grateful to the Palgrave Team, who approached me and entrusted me with sharing valuable findings with the international wide readership of academics, researchers, teacher trainers, educators, and university students in the realm of TEFL and with anybody else interested in educational progress. Special thanks are extended to Chloe Fitzsimmons, Editorial Assistant, whose presence I have felt as discrete and warm but also steady and professional support, confirming that my work would live up to our expectations. I am also deeply indebted to all my university tutors at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, for introducing me to the basic concepts of Linguistics and of the English language, at the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex for broadening my knowledge base in Applied Linguistics and launching my experiences with research, and at the