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An effective classroom management covers a wide range of knowledge and skills, such as the determination and development of rules, teacher leadership, learning styles and characteristics of the students, communication in class, motivation management, effective use of time in the classroom, organizing the classroom and setting up the learning environment. The most important function of the language teacher in the classroom is to provide a suitable learning environment and classroom organization. As an effective classroom manager, language teacher is expected to prepare for education, to determine the classroom rules with the students and make them adopt these rules as well as enabling the students to develop appropriate behaviours to learning foreign language. The aim of this study is to determine and evaluate the views of language instructors in Higher Education on the factors affecting classroom management in language courses. We asked three open ended question to the participant instructors to obtain the data: What are the most important factors to impact your effectiveness in the classroom?”, “What are the rules of effective communication that you apply in the class?” and “What should you do to be successful in classroom management?” The universe of the study is made up of nine language instructors teaching English, French and German languages in Erzincan University and Namık Kemal University. The views of the language instructors obtained through face-to-face interviews show that they have some difficulties in teaching language, which result from the attitudes of the students, and their lack of interest in learning languages such as German and French. We concluded from the study that proficiency of the instructors, the interest of the students in language, the physical facilities of the classrooms, behaviours of the instructors to the students, the interest of the instructors in teaching language are of great importance to achieve effective classroom management in language classes in higher education.