Do Chinese EFL Teachers Suffer from Job Burnout
摘要
Job burnout is a prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors on the job,and it is defined by the three dimensions of Emotional Exhaustion,Depersonalisation and ReducedPersonal Accomplishment.Since the 1970s,job burnout has been attracting extensive interest inpsychology and education research fields.Teachers are found to be a community prone to suffer fromjob burnout.However,so far very little research has been done to investigate ESL/EFL teachers’ jobburnout,and to the present researcher’s knowledge,no research has specifically addressed the issueof Chinese EFL teachers’ job burnout.Therefore,the present research aims at finding out to whatextent Chinese EFL teachers suffer from job burnout and what are the possible causes of their jobburnout.Results of the research are projected to be valuable to educational policy makers,teachertrainers and teachers themselves.