خلاصة:
Nowadays, teachers are receiving more attention in the studies done in mainstream
education since it is believed that they play the most important role in educational
settings, and therefore their different aspects, such as teacher efficacy, burnout,
teaching style, and emotional intelligence, have received great attention. Moreover,
demographic characteristics of teachers are more examined these days since they
are thought to play major roles in teachers’ performance in the classroom. Despite
great attention to different aspects of teachers and their demographics in
mainstream education, such studies are rare in the English Language Teaching
field. This study was therefore designed to explore possible relationships among
English language teachers’ sense of efficacy, burnout, teaching style, and
emotional intelligence on the one hand, and to document probable differences
among them with respect to teachers’ gender, degree, and experience on the otherhand. To this end, four different instruments, one for each of the variables, were
administered among 264 Iranian English language teachers. The findings showed
significant even though not high correlations among some of the components of
teacher efficacy, burnout, teaching style, and emotional intelligence, as well as
significant differences among some the components of these variables with respect
to teachers’ gender, degree, and experience. The results of this study can help
teacher educators in dealing with different teachers since they will know about the
variations among teachers’ performances in the classroom and the problems any
teacher with certain characteristics may have.
ملخص الجهاز:
"Table 2 Characteristics of the questionnaires Questionnaire Source Number Likert-scale Components of Items · instructional strategies Teacher Tschannen- 24 9 points Efficacy Moran & · classroom Woolfolk management Hoy (2001) · student engagement · emotional exhaustion Burnout Maslach 22 7 points (1993) · depersonalization · reduced personal achievement · expert Teaching Grasha 40 7 points Style (2002) · formal authority · personal model · facilitator · delegator · perception of emotions Emotional Schutte et 33 5 points Intelligence al.
To answer the first research question of this study, which stated, "is there any significant relationship among teachers’ efficacy, burnout, teaching style, and emotional intelligence", correlation was run among different components and total of these variables tapped through the questionnaires (see Table 4).
To answer the second research question of this study, which stated, "is there any significant difference among teachers’ efficacy, burnout, teaching style, and emotional intelligence with respect to their gender, degree, and experience", a series of multivariate analysis of variances (MANOVAs) were run on different components of the variables in this study.
Tables 6 to 11 indicate exactly where these significant differences, due to teachers’ gender, degree, experience, and the interactions of these demographics were among the components of teacher efficacy, burnout, teaching style, and emotional intelligence.
The results of various MANOVAs on different components of teacher efficacy, burnout, teaching style, and emotional intelligence with respect to teachers’ demographic variables gender, degree, and experience showed some significant mean differences in teachers’ performances."