Table 2 Interview protocol
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Based on your score on the scale which you filled in a couple of weeks ago, you were screened as a teacher with a high TSE, that is, you have high efficacy in student engagement, instructional strategies, and efficacy in classroom management. | |
Would you please name and elaborate on such a sense of efficacy might affect your instructional/pedagogical activities? | |
Would you please tell me whether you receive support for learners’ development? | |
Follow up: how about support to colleagues, using effective teaching strategies, up-date sources in teaching, using technology in your classes | |
Do you think you have to follow the routines and syllabus prescribed by language institutes? | |
Do you have any plan for developing your profession? How? | |
Prompts: teaching to learners with different proficiency levels, your relationship with your students and colleagues, attempts to foster learner autonomy, acknowledging the learners’ efforts | |
Would you please tell me about attitude towards your job? Are you satisfied? If yes, why? | |
And would you please tell me whether you leave your job if you are offered a better job? | |
Prompts: Don’t you think you are tired somehow? Do you think you are committed to the language institute and the students? | |
Do you motivate your language learners to study hard> |