EFL Teachers’ Stressors and Their Coping Strategies During Online Education Induced by Covid-19

During Covid-19, Teachers faced new sources of stressors caused by the emergency conversion to online language teaching. Thus, the current study aimed to explore EFL teachers’ stressors and their coping strategies in online classes. To this end, eighty-six Iranian EFL teachers from three language schools participated in this study. To identify the stressors, two study-specific questionnaires were applied. Furthermore, to study the coping strategies a short version of COPE (Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced Questionnaire) was applied. Moreover, the researcher interviewed eleven participants to attain more reliable results. The findings revealed that the students-related stressors were sources of more stressful experiences. Furthermore, it revealed that the most frequently applied coping strategy was problem-focused strategies, and the least frequently used coping strategies were avoidance strategies. The findings have implications for pre-service and in-service teacher education programs.