TY - JOUR ID - 14670 TI - Reliance on Student Engagement: Do Academic Degree and Teaching Experience Matter? JO - Issues in Language Teaching JA - ILT LA - en SN - 2322-3715 AU - Nezakatgoo, Behzad AU - Dastgoshadeh, Adel AU - Jalilzadeh, Kaveh AD - Assistant Professor, TEFL, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran AD - Assistant professor, TEFL, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj Branch, Sanandaj, Iran. AD - Assistant Professor, TEFL, Istanbul University Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 11 IS - 1 SP - 255 EP - 280 KW - Academic degree KW - teaching experience KW - student engagement KW - disaffection DO - 10.22054/ilt.2022.65567.671 N2 - This study was an attempt to examine the relationship between the academic degree and teaching experience of Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers and their reliance on student engagement. To this end, eight EFL teachers (male and female) with different teaching experiences and academic degrees and a number of 40 students in their respective classes were selected through convenience sampling. First, the teachers and the students filled out consent forms, including their personal information, such as gender, age, academic degree, and years of teaching experience. Second, the students answered Skinner et al.'s (2008) 'Engagement vs. Disaffection with Learning: Student-report' Questionnaire, a valid scale for measuring language learners' engagement with teaching-learning tasks and their satisfaction with their learning activities. Then, Pearson's product-moment correlation between teachers' teaching experience and academic degree, as well as the students' self-expressed ratings of their engagement or disaffection with classroom learning activities, was calculated. The results showed significant positive correlations between teaching experience and behavioral and emotional engagement and significant negative correlations between teaching experience and behavioral and emotional disaffection. UR - https://ilt.atu.ac.ir/article_14670.html L1 - https://ilt.atu.ac.ir/article_14670_80cef44213fbfc8418dfe9d15b0a71e1.pdf ER -