Factors Causing Demotivation in EFL Teaching Process: A Case Study

Authors

Selami Aydin, Balikesir UniversityFollow

Abstract

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.

Keywords

English as a Foreign Language, Teaching, Demotivating Factors, Elementary Education, Case Study

Publication Date

12-17-2012

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1696

Recommended APA Citation

Aydin, S. (2012). Factors Causing Demotivation in EFL Teaching Process: A Case Study. The Qualitative Report, 17(51), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1696