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标题：Exploring EFL Teachers’ Perceptions of Classroom Video Surveillance: A Qualitative Study
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作者：Seyyed Ali Ostovar-Namaghi ; Mohammad Maleki ; Fatemeh Mozaffari 等
期刊名称：Journal of Language Horizons
印刷版ISSN：2588-350X
电子版ISSN：2588-5634
出版年度：2019
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：199-214
DOI：10.22051/lghor.2020.28408.1190
语种：English
出版社：Alzahra University
摘要：The theory and practice of language teacher autonomy seems to be contradictory in terms. While, in theory, language teaching is conceptualized as a reflective process wherein teachers exercise their professional expertise, in many contexts including some private language schools of Shahrood and Semnan, teaching performance is tightly monitored through closed-circuit cameras. This study attempts to explore language teachers’ perceptions of teaching under video surveillance through elicitation data gathered and analyzed based on grounded theory. Iterative data collection and analysis and the constant comparative techniques revealed that video surveillance negatively affects language teaching since the participants believed it violates their rights to privacy, induces artificial practice, suppresses teacher initiatives, and deskills teachers by inducing disused atrophy. Through the counter-evidence presented by the language teachers, it was also found that the rationales for using video surveillance are unjustified. The findings of this study have clear implications for managers, supervisors and language teachers teaching in private language schools in the context of this study and other similar contexts.