Difficulties that the foreign language department student teachers from the University of El Salvador face when undertaking the teaching practice at CENIUES english programs during the academic year 2016

The present research study involves identifying the most troublesome situations that University of El Salvador’s Foreign Language Department (FLD) student teachers experienced as they complete their teaching practice at CENIUES (Centro de Enseñanza de Idiomas de la Universidad de El Salvador). The research was focused on discovering the areas that student teachers find more challenging, to this end, studies prior to this research as well a substantive amount of literature were carefully analyzed. A mixed-method approach that included qualitative and quantitative data-collection instruments was used in order to obtain and process reliable and accurate first-hand information. The results were analyzed without disregarding the specific context in which the study was conducted and all participants (coordinators, instructors and student teachers) were properly included in the study. After the analysis stage, some recommendations have been given as possible solutions to confront the most challenging situations student teachers face while carrying out their teaching practice.