Seyed Mohammad Ali Mansoorian - Clinical Research Development Unit Beheshti Hospital, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Iran
Abbas Ali Ebrahimimehr - Assistant Professor of Islamic Education Department, Clinical Research Development Unit Beheshti Hospital, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Iran

The study followed two fundamental aims. The first aim of the study was to explore EFL teachers’ perceptions about effective teaching and learning and its second goal was to explore participants’ beliefs about the best methods and techniques of teaching. This is a survey that used a researcher-made questionnaire to garner data from the participants. It had two main dimensions, one focusing on the nature of children’s learning, and the other was focusing on methods and techniques of language teaching. The participants were EFL male and female teachers who were selected through a convenient sampling method from some language institutes in Shiraz. To analyze the data, the researcher made use of a one-sample t-test. The results showed that teachers’ awareness about language learning and teaching was higher than average. The mean scores of the participants in all the dimensions, including traditional concepts, constructivist concepts, and humanistic concepts, were higher than average. The results also depicted that teachers’ awareness about the methods and techniques of teaching was also higher than the average domain. The participants’ mean scores in all the dimensions of the grammar-translation method, communicative approach, and teaching practices were higher than average in the communicative approach.

Professional Development, professional teaching, teacher beliefs, teacher education, teacher perception