Emotional Feelings of Iranian Novice and Experienced EFL Teachers Toward Colleagues, Educational Staff, Professional Networks and Student's Progress

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Masoud   Hashemi ¹ (مدیر گروه زبان)
Peyman  Rajabi ² (Department of English Language Teaching, Malayer Branch, Islamic Azad University, Malayer, Iran.)
Abbas  Bayat ³ (Department of English Language, Malayer Branch, Islamic Azad University, Malayer, Iran)

Received: 2022-12-06 Accepted : 2023-05-01 Published : 2024-04-24

Keywords: emotional feelings, Iranian EFL teachers, novice teachers, experienced teachers,

Abstract :

The purpose of this article was to study the emotional feelings of Iranian novice and experienced EFL teachers. A group of 63 experienced and novice language teachers (33 men and 19 women) were selected by a purposeful sampling from the statistical population (77 people). The Persian version of the TES questionnaire was used to measure the emotional feelings of the participants toward their professional lives. About 80% of the novice teachers reported having the first stage of emotional feeling: fantasy. They described various fantasies about their students, the parents, and the school staff and the pleasant or unpleasant environments they think they will have in their future classrooms. This stage (unrealistic positivism) seemed quite pleasing to them since students and their parents respected them for their hard work, and no one wanted to misbehave. Moreover, 79% of novice teachers reported experiencing the "survival" stage, in which they fought for their professional identity and a sense of worth among students and colleagues, and 92 % reported a sense of failure when their students failed their classes.

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