Iranian EFL Teachers’ Perceptions of Professional Development, Creativity and Reflectivity

Subject Areas : Journal of Studies in Learning and Teaching English

Mehdi Abbasi ¹ , Fatemeh Behjat ² , Mohammad Sadegh Bagheri ³

1 - Department of English, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran
2 - Department of English, Abadeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abadeh, Iran
3 - Department of English, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

Received: 2023-04-30 Accepted : 2023-05-03 Published : 2023-06-01

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