A Study of Teachers Stress in Teaching English as a Second Language

Teaching is a very rewarding profession but it has its stressful elements too. Inspections, assessments, reports, workshops are all potentially stressful areas. The purpose of the present study was to measure the stress of Elementary teachers. The questionnaire was consisted on different sections; the factors of stress for the teachers, effects of stress and techinques which are used by the teachers to relieve their stress. After the analysis of data, results showed that the stress factor decreased the teachers' efficiency. The most stressful item for the teachers was students' less attention in English learning.The other causes were pronunciation and grammar problems, lack of vocabulary, lesson plannig, work sheets and training etc. The most common effects of stress on teachers were 'fast heart beat', 'headache' and 'exhausted' respectively. Stress relief items used by the teachers were 'saying prayer', 'reading newspapers' and 'talking to friends & family members' respectively. Stress should be decreased with proper guidance, training, workshops relating English teaching, disciplines and full attention of the teachers to English language and their profession.