Job Burnout of English Teachers in Secondary Schools in Western China
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He Zhouchun
Abstract
Through the analysis of 86 valid questionnaires and twice follow-up interviews connected with twice MBI-ESs for the three chosen participants, this study shows that: 1) The job burnout syndrome of English teachers in secondary schools is not very serious; 2) There's no significant difference between male and female teachers, between teachers in junior and senior middle schools or between teachers in key and average schools, but teachers with more teaching experience can often find a sense of personal achievement; 3) The causes of English teachers' job burnout in secondary schools lie in external factors, such as unreasonable school policy, student-management pressure, exam pressure, etc. and internal factors, such as knowledge exhaustion, lacking self-adjustment, etc.
此研究是通过对86份有效问卷的描述性统计分析和一元方差分析，以及对三位被试的前后两次问卷调查与半结构式采访记录的分析，得出结论：1）中学英语教师职业倦怠总体情况并不严重；2）不同性别、不同教学年级以及不同学校的英语教师的职业倦怠症状没有显著差异性，但 “50岁及以上” 的被试与其他年龄阶段的教师倦怠状况有显著差异；3）性别、教学年级、学校等因素与职业倦怠不存在显著相关，但年龄和教龄与职业倦怠中的 “个人成就感维度” 具有显著相关；4）引起中学英语教师职业倦怠原因有外部原因（如学校不合理的评价体系、应试压力、管理学生压力等）和教师本身原因（如知识枯竭，缺乏自我调节能力等）。
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Articles in the same Issue
- Changes and Characteristics of EFL Teachers' Professional Identity: The Cases of Nine University Teachers
- Conceptions of Oral English Teaching: A Case Study of Teacher Cognition on Oral English Teaching and Classroom Practice
- Job Burnout of English Teachers in Secondary Schools in Western China
- The Use of Amplifiers in the Doctoral Dissertations of Chinese EFL Learners
- An Investigation into the L2 Mental Lexicon of Chinese English Learners by Means of Word Association
- The Influence of Chinese Rhetorical Patterns on EFL Writing: Learner Attitudes Towards This Influence
- An Investigation of Teacher and Learner Beliefs About English Teaching and Learning for Mongolian University Student
- A Contrastive Study of American and Chinese University Students' Complaining Strategies
- Chinese Abstracts
