Open AccessFactors Causing Demotivation in EFL Teaching Process: A Case Study
Author(s) -
Selami Aydın
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1696
Subject(s) - turkish , psychology , mathematics education , curriculum , qualitative research , subject (documents) , process (computing) , data collection , pedagogy , face (sociological concept) , english as a foreign language , foreign language , sociology , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , social science , operating system , library science
Studies have mainly focused on strategies to motivate teachers or the student-teacher motivation relationships rather than teacher demotivation in the English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching process, whereas no data have been found on the factors that cause teacher demotivation in the Turkish EFL teaching contexts at the elementary education level. Thus, this study aims to investigate the demotivating factors in EFL teaching at the elementary level. The study was designed as a qualitative case study, and involved face-to-face conversations, MSN talks and a diary maintained by the subject for data collection. The results showed that the problems were related to the teaching profession, curriculum, working conditions, students and their parents, colleagues and school administrators, and physical conditions.