Iranian EFL teachers' self-efficacy and emotional intelligence as predictors of their reflection

 

Iranian EFL teachers' self-efficacy and emotional intelligence as 

predictors of their reflection 

Hamideh Rastegari Department of ELT, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

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Abstract 

This article intended to explore the Relationship among self-efficacy, emotional intelligence and reflective teaching in Iranian EFL Teachers. Three questionnaires of self-efficacy (Tschannen-Moran and Hoy including24 items), emotional intelligence (Bar-on EQ consisting 133items) and reflective teaching (Akbari, Behzadpoor, and Dadvand comprising 29 items) were used in this study a demographic scale was also used in order to gather information about the participants’ gender, level of proficiency and teaching experience .Fifty two male and female participants all of whom were EFL teachers ranged from BA to PhD with various teaching experience participated in the study. Pearson product-moment correlation analysis was conducted. The findings showed no significant relationship among variables. The noticeable influence of the moderator variables was confirmed in this study through Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient.

 Keywords: self- efficacy, emotional intelligence, reflection, EFL teachers

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