TY - JOUR ID - 13814 TI - The Role of Experience in EFL Teachers' Satisfaction of the In-service Teacher Education Programs JO - Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances JA - JALDA LA - en SN - 2820-8986 AU - Abbasi, Naser AU - Khosrowshahi, Simin Navahi AD - Ph.D. Candidate of Applied Linguistics, Department of English, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch, Zanjan, Iran. AD - M.A. in TEFL, Department of English, Islamic Azad University, Maragheh Branch, Maragheh, Iran. Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 6 IS - 1 SP - 77 EP - 89 KW - In-service Teacher Training KW - Pre-service Teacher Training KW - Teacher Education KW - Teacher Training KW - Experience DO - 10.22049/jalda.2018.26256.1071 N2 - The short-term in-service EFL teacher education programs are assumed to be of crucial importance in upgrading teachers' methodologies and gearing their teaching more closely to the students' needs. Therefore, a dynamic in-service program for EFL teachers is needed to keep abreast of the time.The present study aims to investigate the role of experience in EFL teachers' satisfaction of the in-service teacher education programs in Zanjan city. 200 EFL teachers from Zanjan province (1 &2 districts) were participated in this study.The data collected through the Course-evaluation questionnaire with “five-level Likert scale”. The results were analyzed through both descriptive and inferential statistics.The findings showed that There is a significant difference between teachers’ experience and their satisfaction of in-service programs.Thus novice teachers and experienced teachers have different expectation of the in-service teacher education programs.This production of significant difference about the relationship between the EFL teachers' experience and their satisfaction of the in-service teacher education programs can be contributed to different perceptions of the teachers on the relationship between the EFL teachers' experience and their satisfaction of the in-service teacher education programs UR - http://jalda.azaruniv.ac.ir/article_13814.html L1 - http://jalda.azaruniv.ac.ir/article_13814_18d0af8337d0b903b4938eb8a40592e4.pdf ER -