摘要:Researchers have demonstrated that effective teacher leadership has a positive influence on English language students’ achievement and it is seen as an essential means for institution improvement and renewal. To this end, the present article aimed at exploring and quantitatively analyzing the extent to which EFL teachers perceive teacher leadership. Therefore, through the adoption of a Questionnaire of Teacher Leadership School Survey ( presented in appendix B) developed by Katzenmeyer and Moller (2009), a questionnaire survey was carried out to collect data from 60 EFL teachers across four English language institutes in Alborz province in Iran. Then, as a result of the data analysis, it was indicated that most of the EFL participant teachers practiced and implemented at last an average level of teacher leadership in their classes.
关键词:EFL teacher leadership;institution improvement;English language students’ achievement