Iranian high school EFL teachers perspective toward the future of English language teaching in women: scenario planning

This article examines the prospect of EFL teachers perspective toward the future of English language teaching in women of Iranian high school. It has adopted the approach of scenario planning to analyze the data collected from interviews with 30 EFL experts in Iran. Scenario planning is a description of a possible future situation .in this study suggests what is scenario toward the future of English language teaching in women in Iran by 2030. Iran, being a collectivist, and restrained society with a normative cultural orientation and preference for avoiding uncertainty, will be reluctant to accept technological innovation so quickly which would replace EFL teachers. Further research covering a time frame beyond 2030 would be needed.

Keywords:

scenario planning , English as a foreign language (EFL)