Dr. Kamran Janfeshan & Mohammad Mahdi Pourarian
Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran
Motivation and job satisfaction are very essential to the continuing growth of educational systems around the world. The overall aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between EFL teachers` motivation and job satisfaction in high schools. To fulfill these aims 72 EFL teachers from all government high schools and secondary schools in urban area were selected. Among the selected teachers twenty-five were male and forty-seven were female teachers. The samples in this study had different educational background, years of experience, gender, and age. Two structured questionnaires were employed to evaluate teachers’ job satisfaction and motivation in this research. The Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire consisted of 20 factors was used to measure the job satisfaction, and the Teachers Motivation Questionnaire (TMQ) consisted of 49 factors was used to measure the motivation. The results of the study revealed that there was a positive relationship between EFL teachers’ motivation and their job satisfaction in schools. Furthermore, according to these finding it can be concluded that all these demographic variables such as gender, age, and experience affect both on teachers` motivation and job satisfaction.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 1-2 February 2018, Ahwaz.
