Teacher Trainees’ Perceptions On The Levels And Causes Of Stress During Teaching Practice

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the levels and the causes of stress among TESL teacher trainees in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. 32 teacher trainees from 3 SPL (TESL) for 07/08 session have been chosen as the respondents. The factors that have been predetermined are school’s regulation, teaching workload, interpersonal relationships and problems with the students at school. The instrument of this study is a set of questionnaire taken and adapted from Ahmad Syakri (1998). The reliability of the instrument is 0.848. The data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 14.0. Descriptive analysis in terms of mean and frequency is used to analyze the level of stress. Results showed that the level of stress among TESL teacher trainees is at the moderate level. The results also showed that there were no significant relationship between the level of stress with gender, SPM result and teaching experience of the respondents. However, there were significant relationships between age and MUET results with the level of stress among the teacher trainees. Keywords: stress, teacher trainees, Teaching Practice