Analysis Of Motivation Of Expatriate English Teachers In Thailand

[j634]

Hi all,

I am in the final stages of completing my MATEFL course and would like to enlist your assistance with this questionnaire. If you would like to participate the link is - http://www.expatmotivation.com click on the name of the survey and it will be launched. The total completion should be less than 20 minutes.

The purpose of this questionnaire is to identify some of the factors that influence, motivate, and empower expatriate English language teachers in Thailand.

The questionnaire concerns both job satisfaction and career satisfaction. There is no known risk associated with participation in this research.

Participation is entirely voluntary. Data from the questionnaire will be anonymous. Names of participants will not be connected to questionnaire information.

This is not an evaluation of any language teaching program, and the identity of the program in which you work will not be connected to the data.

You are eligible to participate if you are currently or have provided direct instruction to learners of English as a second or foreign language, either full or part time, at any institution or in any language program.

If you are interested in finding out the results of this questionnaire it will be posted at www.expatmotivation.com

Thank you all for your help,

James

[phosphorescent]

Your questionnaire has some problems, for example, choose one of the following 1)strongly disagree 2)disagree 3)agree 4)strongly disagree(one and four are the same). Once the questions on the first page are answered and next is clicked, a message pops up saying all questions need to be answered, even though they all were answered. Hope this helps and makes sense.

[j634]

Your questionnaire has some problems, for example, choose one of the following 1)strongly disagree 2)disagree 3)agree 4)strongly disagree(one and four are the same). Once the questions on the first page are answered and next is clicked, a message pops up saying all questions need to be answered, even though they all were answered. Hope this helps and makes sense.

Thanks for that. I guess even the pilot study people did not see that. It is now corrected. The pop-up only happens when all are not answered. I completed the questionnaire and no problems. The pop-up happened when I left an item blank.

Thanks for the help

[j634]

I was finally able to duplicate the problem about the pop-up and it has been corrected. Thanks again for the feedback.

[SlyAnimal]

imo put a screen at the end, after you click submit, which confirms that you've submitted the survey and thanks you for participating (I wasn't sure when I finished, if I'd actually finished or if it had had a problem submitting).

[j634]

imo put a screen at the end, after you click submit, which confirms that you've submitted the survey and thanks you for participating (I wasn't sure when I finished, if I'd actually finished or if it had had a problem submitting).

Thanks and there is now a nice sign depicting this is the end.

[Rhys]

A very interesting academic pursuit...The research is in Thailand, thus are you studying for your MA in Thailand. That must be interesting. An article you might be interested in is Native English Speaking Teachers' Beliefs about Difficulties in Teaching English to To Thai Learners..authors Nittaya Weawong and Wareesir Singasiri, they used mixed methodologies in data collection. Insightful comments. A clear link to culture and English learning motivation.

It is sad that "some" elements of the MOE consider NEST as the lower rung of the teaching barrel. As you know motivation for some NEST is to make enough money to move on.. thus the quality of the teacher can be suspect.. however, what is even more suspect is the schools that hire doddy teachers. Having the appropriate degrees helps, but the MA degree is a research degree, unrelated to teaching.. I am sure your have met many "educators/teachers" who can motivate students and encourage... provide interesting lessons and do not have an MA or Ph.D.

We can even go so far to return to the argument of Linguistic imperialism.. colonization..bravado....look about the country and many cannot face the obvious realities..Are English Teachers, agents of linguistic imperialism? Teacher are passing culture as well as language in class. Certainly business has tapped into this golden goose.

[j634]

Hi all,

The survey is now complete and I would like to say thank you for those that participated. I will post the results at a later time when I have finished analyzing the data.

I have 1 more favor to ask. The survey failed to ask for an email address when a person clicked yes to participate in an online interview and now I have no participants for phase 2. I need 5 people to complete the online email interview which only has a few questions and than email it back to me. If you can help please send a pm with your email address and I will send you the questions.

Thanks again for all who helped,

James