Efficiency of Short-Term In-Service EFL Teacher Education Programs in Zanjan City

The short-term in-service EFL teacher education programs are assumed to be of crucial importance in upgrading teachers' methodologies and gearing their teaching more closely to the students' needs. Therefore, a dynamic in-service program for EFL teachers is needed to keep abreast of the time. The present study aims to investigate the EFL teachers' perceptions of efficiency of short term in-service teacher education programs in Zanjan city. 200 EFL teachers from Zanjan province (1 &2 districts) were participated in this study. The data collected through the Course-evaluation questionnaire with five-level Likert scale . The results were analyzed through both descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings showed that: a) EFL teachers had different perceptions towards the content efficiency, on presenting the kinds of applicable techniques in their teaching process, on enabling them to be reflective teachers, on the quality of the provision and executing of in-service programs and on teachers‟ teaching experience; b) there is no difference in satisfaction of teachers who had studied TEFL in teaching training centers with non TEFL teachers; and female and male teachers had the same perceptions about in-service courses.

کلیدواژه ها:

Efficiency ، In-service Teacher Training ، Pre-service Teacher Training ، Teacher Education ، Teacher Training