Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
International LET-IN 2025 Conference, Mersin, Türkiye, 2 - 03 Mayıs 2025, ss.1-2, (Özet Bildiri)
In order to foster a supportive workplace and retain outstanding teachers, it is of vital significance to understand the elements that affect teachers’ contentment with their job, i.e., their job satisfaction. It has a direct impact on the teachers’ efficacy and personal, mental, and physical well-being, which is among the key foci of research in the field. The present study aimed to find out the job satisfaction of foreign language teachers. Likewise, the study explored teachers’ suggestions to increase their job satisfaction. Fifty-eight teachers of English, French, German, and Spanish languages participated in the study. Quantitative data were collected via a questionnaire modeled after Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire both for online and face-to-face classes, and analyzed by descriptive statistics. Qualitative data were collected via semi-structured interviews to undertake a comprehensive examination of the suggestions about job satisfaction and analyzed by thematic analysis. Results showed that, for online job satisfaction, the factors that appear at the top of the list were salary, online working conditions, and the online teaching platforms for the majority of the teachers. For face-to-face job satisfaction, the most important factors were the salary, variety of methods and activities, working conditions, and the opportunity to use one’s abilities. Work-life balance, teaching environment, and the appreciation by the students were the major themes emerged in the qualitative data. Results will be discussed in detail in the presentation. Keywords: Job satisfaction, Online education, Face-to-face education, foreign language teachers