Challenges Of Pre-service Teachers During Teaching Practice: A Case Study

This present study was conducted to explore pre-service teachers’ experience in teaching practice from a private university in Selangor. Information was gathered from five 8th semester pre-service teachers undergoing their Bachelor of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language on their experience of teaching practice. This qualitative study employed a semi structured interview for the data collection. The interview was audiotaped and transcribed. The transcribed audiotaped interview was analysed to identify the challenges faced by the pre-service teachers during the teaching practice. Also, this study investigated some possible ways that can be used by pre-service teachers to overcome the challenges during teaching practice. The findings revealed that teaching methods, communication and the students’ behaviour were amongst the challenges that they faced. As a result, to overcome these challenges, having effective teaching methods and communication were suggested by the pre-service teachers.