The initial years of a teacher’s career can determine their sustainability within the field of education. This research aims to investigate the challenges faced by the English Language novice teachers and the support received by the novice teachers to overcome the challenges. Moreover, this research also investigated how far teacher education prepares novice teachers in facing the challenges encountered in the first three years of the teaching profession. This research has adopted a mixed-method research design in which the data for the questionnaire were collected from 80 novice teachers and interviews from 5 novice teachers. The results indicated that the most frequent challenges encountered by the novice teachers were (1) workload challenges, (2) instructional challenges, and (3) social status and identity challenges. The results also showed that the most frequent support received by novice teachers was collegial support. In terms of teacher education, the novice teache.....

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