The Role of Iranian EFL Teachers’ Reflectivity and Teaching Style in the Students’ Achievement

Reflectivity and teaching styles are considered as major factors in developing teaching profession. Since Language teachers with high level of reflectivity and appropriate teaching styles canteach effectively, this study has been conducted to investigate the role of Iranian EFL teachers’ reflectivity and their teaching style in their students’ achievement. To do so, 70 EFL high-school teachers of Qazvin Province (third grade) participated in the study. Two questionnaires of reflectivity and teaching style preferences were distributed among the teachers and also every teacher list of students’ final examscores was taken to collect the required data. The data were analyzed using logistic regression analysis.The result of this study revealed between teachers’ reflectivity and their teaching style, the first one could predict their students’ achievement and among the subscales of reflective teaching, the meta-cognitive element could predict the students’ achievement significantly.

Keywords:

teachers’ reflectivity , Teaching Style , Iranian EFL Teachers , learning achievement