Teachers’ burnout and students’ language achievement during COVID-19 pandemic: A case of online education

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Department of English, Sarab Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sarab, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of English, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran

3 Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, University of Mohaghegh Ardabil, Ardabil, Iran

Abstract

The present study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between teachers’ sense of burnout and students’ language achievement in their online classes. To this end, 40 male and female English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers and 100 EFL learners were randomly selected from both public schools and private language institutes. The Oxford Placement Test (OPT) and MBI-ES questionnaire were employed as the instruments of the present study. The researcher distributed MBI-ES questionnaire among the teacher participants and also used OPT test and gave it to 100 students of each class in order to measure their achievement and their language performance. The present study used Pearson correlation in order to find the correlation between the aforementioned variables. Then, after collecting the data about the two above-mentioned variables, the results revealed that there is no significant relationship between teachers’ sense of burnout and students’ language achievement during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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