Abstract:
The short-term in-service EFL teacher education programs are assumed to be of crucial importance in upgrading teachers’ methodologies and gearing their teaching more closely to the students’ needs. Therefore, a dynamic in-service program for EFL teachers is needed to keep abreast of the time. The present study aims to investigate the role of experience in EFL teachers’ satisfaction of the in-service teacher education programs in Zanjan city. 200 EFL teachers from Zanjan province (Districts 1 & 2) participated in this study. The data were collected through the Course-evaluation questionnaire with “five-level Likert scale”. The results were analyzed through both descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings showed that there is a significant difference between teachers’ experience and their satisfaction of in-service programs. Thus, novice teachers and experienced teachers have different expectations of the in-service teacher education programs. This production of significant difference about the relationship between the EFL teachers’ experience and their satisfaction of the in-service teacher education programs can contribute to different perceptions of the teachers on the relationship between the EFL teachers’ experience and their satisfaction of the in-service teacher education programs.
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The Role of Experience in EFL Teachers’ Satisfaction of the In-service Teacher Education Programs Naser Abbasi* (Corresponding Author) Ph. D.
com Abstract The short-term in-service EFL teacher education programs are assumed to be of crucial importance in upgrading teachers’ methodologies and gearing their teaching more closely to the students’ needs.
The present study aims to investigate the role of experience in EFL teachers’ satisfaction of the in-service teacher education programs in Zanjan city.
The present study aims to investigate the relationship between the EFL teachers’ experience and their satisfaction of the in-service teacher education programs.
The short-term in-service EFL teacher education programs are assumed to be of crucial importance in upgrading teachers’ methodologies and gearing their teaching more closely to the students’ needs.
Research Question and Hypothesis 1) Is there any relationship between the EFL teachers’ experience and their satisfaction of the in-service teacher education programs?
Some researchers have studied in-service programs rather than pre-service programs (Coladarci & Gage, 1984; Griffin & Barnes, 1986; Carpenter, Fennema, Peterson, Chang & Loef, 1989).
Also, the findings of this study are in line with Freeman (1989) who found that there is a significant difference about the relationship between the EFL teachers’ experience and their satisfaction of the in-service teacher education programs.
Also, the findings of this study are in line with Rahimi and Nabilou (2010) who found that there was a significant difference about the relationship between the teachers’ teaching experience and their satisfaction of the in-service teacher education programs.