The reasons behind English Language instructors’ quitting their MA studies

Year 2018, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 49 - 76, 30.06.2018

İlknur Karadağlı Dirik

Abstract

The aim of the
study was to gain insight into the English language teachers who quitted their
MA studies through one research question that asked the reasons that led the
teachers to quit their MA. Three English language instructors participated in
this purely qualitative study. I collected the data through semi-structured
interviews and graphic elicitation tasks. The results showed that there were a
few reasons for their decision to quit, the most important one being the lack
of motivation. Implications were discussed in the paper.

Keywords

Graduate school, instructors' graduate studies, challenges of doing MA

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