The Influence of Education in Psychology on Teacher’s Views and Practices in Iranian English Language Teaching (ELT) Classes

Running head: PSYCHOLOGY
Psychology
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1PSYCHOLOGY
The influence of Education in Psychology on Teacher’s views and practices in Iranian English
Language Teaching (ELT) classes.
The belief and the understanding of the teaching of the language teachers play an
essential role in the practices in the classroom and in the growth of their professional field (Liu
& Chalmers, 2018). Teachers play various essential roles in the multidimensional procedure of
teaching of the language and their psychology about the teaching language tend to influence their
practices (Borg, 2017). This research assignment highlights on 25 teachers of Iranian English
Language Teaching (ELT) with the focus to investigate the level of influence of the education on
the English Language Teaching classes in practices and psychology views. The paper will
illustrate the existing beliefs of teaching that tends to find resonance and interest among the
teachers of the Iranian English Language and the intensity with which these beliefs are converted
into practices.
According to Mellati et al. (2013), there lie four categories of the knowledge and beliefs
of the teachers. These include knowledge of the teacher as the content knowledge, insight of the
teacher as the reflective practices, the educators' knowledge as the matched knowledge and the
insight of the teacher as practical and private knowledge. Further researches state that teachers
who visit various principles of teaching tend to appear noticeably different and unique on their
observations on classroom matters and lesson plans (Mooi, Sarstedt & Mooi-Reci, 2018). The
way a teacher conceive the matter of a subject or a language also tends to influence their process
of teaching.
In the following research, two of the most important factor will be focused. These are the
Enhanced English training/teaching (ELT) and Internationally educated professionals (IEP). For