Self-efficacy, effectiveness, and work engagement are crucial factors influencing the quality of education and learning outcomes for English language learners. Despite their importance, research on the interplay among these factors in the context of English language teaching remains limited. This study aimed to explore the relationship between…

It is widely acknowledged that the mental condition of teachers has a direct impact on their professional performance. Put another way, teachers with mental or psychological disorders may fail to accomplish their professional responsibilities. Accordingly, factors contributing to teachers' psychological well-being need to be uncovered. To address…

The qualifications of faculty members play a crucial role in the success of educational systems. Academics with a high level of organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) are mostly valued due to the excellent services they offer to their students. This study aims to investigate the impact of faculty members' personality traits on their OCB.…

Despite extensive research on antecedents and consequences of counterproductive work behavior (CWB), factors contributing to it in educational settings and teachers have not been adequately addressed. With participants of secondary school teachers working in public schools (270), private schools (302), and other educational institutions (319) in…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the critical roles of emotional intelligence, increasing job demands behaviour and subjective well-being in teachers' performance throughout their gender. Design/methodology/approach: In this study, the authors used multi-group structural equation modelling and mediation analysis of a sample of 602…

As a context-dependent phenomenon, the teacher--student relationships (TSR) remain an under-researched field. The purpose of this study was to voice teachers' perceptions of the influential factors affecting TSR. Using a qualitative phenomenological design, we attempted to present a detailed description of teachers' perceived factors influencing…

Purpose: Knowledge-sharing is a valuable learning activity among teachers that leads to individual and collective professional development and contributes to students' learning outcomes and school effectiveness. However, teachers are generally weak at knowledge-sharing and are often professionally isolated from colleagues. Regardless of the…

A common metric in appraising the classroom and educational experience is student ratings of courses and faculty. Our purpose in this study was to investigate whether the ratings of faculty in a co-educational Middle Eastern university concerning observation of university rules and policy, communication with colleagues, and communication with…

There is an abundance of scholarship documenting educators' uses of for-profit social media platforms for professional learning, but little is known about how inauthentic accounts affect those experiences. We studied 83 state-sponsored accounts' interactions with the teacher-focused #Edchat hashtag by analyzing their profiles, profiles of accounts…

To discover the predictors of teacher innovative work behavior, the authors surveyed 232 EFL teachers. Three instruments, including Urtecht Work Engagement Scale questionnaire, Dimensions of Learning Organization Questionnaire (Marsick & Watkins, 2003), and Innovative Work Behavior questionnaire were employed to examine the predictors of…

This study drew on a community of practice (CoP) perspective and examined the role of religious ideology in 10 Iranian English language teachers' identity construction. The study was situated within a narrative inquiry methodology. Data were collected from semi-structured interviews and narrative frames to capture how Islamic principles contribute…

Using a grounded theory approach, this study aims to develop a framework of teacher entitlement in Iran. The preliminary findings point to chronic socio-economic frustration as the main theme present in the entitlement discourse among Iranian teachers. Teachers were highly dissatisfied and felt that they deserved better social and economic…

English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers differ in their autonomy-supportive and controlling interpersonal behavioral styles when motivating learners. Drawing upon the self-determination theory (SDT) and the model of interpersonal teacher behavior (MITB), this study aimed to investigate the impact of teachers' interpersonal behaviors,…

Cyberloafing, defined as the use of Internet for personal purposes during working hours, is an increasing phenomenon in view of a broad spread of Internet technologies. Although the majority of research on cyberloafing behaviors has focused on employers' cyberloafing in different organizational environments, very little is known about its…

Due to the massive integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in higher education, teachers need to be highly digital competent and have positive attitudes to manage their classes effectively. In this regard, the European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators (DigCompEdu) introduces a paradigm known as…