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Derginin Adı:
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The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
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Cilt:
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2012/13
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Sayı:
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3
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Makale Başlık:
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN IRANIAN DISTANCE EDUCATION PNU EFL UNIVERSITY TEACHERS AND TRADITIONAL NON-PNU EFL UNIVERSITY TEACHERS
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Makale Eklenme Tarihi:
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6.04.2015
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Okunma Sayısı:
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1
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Makale Özeti:
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Professional Development is a critical necessity in today’s educational environment.
The present research was based on the idea that teachers are professionals and
they need professional development consisting of various processes of ongoing
growth. We examined university teachers’ attitude to professional development in a
type of distance learning educational system in Iran and examined their attitudes
with their counterparts teaching in on-campus educational systems. To this end, 70
Payame Noor EFL instructors and 70 non-Payame Noor EFL instructors from other
public universities in Tehran, Iran were selected to conduct the research. A fivescale
Likert questionnaire was designed and evaluated using confirmatory factor
analysis (CFA) in order to determine to what extent PNU EFL instructors are
involved in professional development and whether there is any significant
difference between the level of professional development between them and nonPNU
EFL instructors. Data were analyzed with SPSS 18.0 using both parametric and
non-parametric statistical tests. The outcomes of this study identified that although
PNU EFL teachers believed in increasing their professional development level, this
belief wasn’t very prevalent and a significant difference occurred between the
extent of professional development between them and non-PNU EFL instructors.
Therefore, PNU EFL teachers need to develop a greater awareness of teaching in
distance learning university systems while maintaining a high level of motivation to
teach English in order to keep up with the changes of English language teaching in
the world.
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