Teaching – Learning and Evaluating and English as Foreign Language Process and the Problematic of Classroom Management: The Case Study of Secondary School of Sokponta(Benin)

The present study aimed to point out the teachers’ difficulties related to the classroom management in the secondary school of “Sokponta-Gomé” in the municipally of GLAZOUE in “Department of Collines” in the central part of Benin. The target population was composed of students of 6ème (first year in secondary schools) and their English teachers. Through random procedure, a total of fifty (50) teachers, one hundred (100) students and some resource persons were selected and to whom questionnaires and interviews were addressed.Also, class observation technique was used to assess how teachers manage their classrooms. After analysis with R (3.2.3) software, it was revealed thatmost of the teachers encountered great difficulty to manage very well classes although they knew its importance.In particular the discipline problem and attractive teaching styles were expressed by most of them. Thus, a combination of corporal punishment and chore to discipline students when a discipline problem occurred were also explored. Singing as attractive material of teaching is used by very few teachers.The majority has qualified it like a sort of wasting of time. The present study was a kind of diagnose of the sector which must be taken into account so as to improve students income.

Keywords: Classroom Management, Teacher, Student, English as a Foreign Language.