EFL Teachers’ Extent of Occupation Immunity in Iranian Language Centers and Public Schools

Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice

دوره 15، شماره 30، آذر 2022، صفحه 244-265   

نوع مقاله: Research Paper

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.30495/jal.2022.697011

نویسندگان

Mehrnoosh Haji Jalili؛ Mehrdad Sepehri^* ؛ Sajjad Shafiee

Department of English, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran

چکیده

In recent years, the personal characteristics and attitudes of teachers have attracted the attention of various scholars. The teacher’s immunity level is one of the newly proposed concepts in this area. The present study aimed at exploring the difference between the immunity level of the Iranian EFL teachers at language centers and public schools. In order to achieve this objective, one hundred EFL teachers teaching in public schools (N = 50) and language centers (N = 50), in Isfahan, were selected through convenience sampling to participate in this study. Then, the Teachers’ Immunity Level questionnaire was administered to them, and they were interviewed as well.  The obtained results revealed that teachers working in public schools have higher levels of immunity compared to the ones working in language centers. This finding can have some implications for the decision-makers in the Iranian Ministry of Education to provide adequate amenities to improve teachers’ immunity in language centers.

کلیدواژه‌ها

language centers؛ public schools؛ teachers’ immunity

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