ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IRANIAN EFL TEACHERS’ TEACHING STYLE AND THEIR TEACHING DEVELOPMENT

Teaching style is viewed as teachers’ identifiable and consistent behaviors and techniques in classroom [1]. Generally speaking, every teacher follows particular styles in classroom depending on the learners, subject matter, context, and course objectives. The aim of this study was to shed light on the relationship between Iranian EFL teachers’ teaching style and their teacher development. To this end teaching style questionnaire consisted of five subscales designed by [1], was studied regarding teacher development. The results of the study indicates that there is a positive, meaningful relationship between Iranian EFL teachers’ teacher development and expert, facilitator model, delegator subscales of teaching style. On the other hand there found no relationship between Iranian EFL teachers teacher development and personal model, and formal authority subscale.