The Role of Experience in EFL Teachers Satisfaction of the In-service Teacher Education Programs

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 role of experience in EFL teachers satisfaction of the 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 There is a significant difference between teachers’ experience and their satisfaction of in-service programs.Thus novice teachers and experienced teachers have different expectation of the in-service teacher education programs.This production of significant difference about the relationship between the EFL teachers experience and their satisfaction of the in-service teacher education programs can be contributed to different perceptions of the teachers on the relationship between the EFL teachers experience and their satisfaction of the in-service teacher education programs

کلیدواژه ها:

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