TEACHERS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS TEACHER COLLABORATION FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the attitudes of teachers at English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Department - University of Foreign Languages, Hue University (HUFL) towards teacher collaboration (TC) as a means to benefit their professional development. The data were collected through questionnaire and interview. Forty questionnaires were delivered to forty teachers of ESP department. Thirty-eight questionnaires were completed and returned to the author. Five teachers were invited to participate in in-depth interviews. The data collected from the questionnaires were processed quantitatively and presented in Tables and Figures, while information from the interviews was analyzed qualitatively. The findings from both quantitative and qualitative data have shown that most teachers at ESP department have positive attitudes towards teacher collaboration. Nearly all participants stated that TC was very necessary to teacher professional development and that teachers could benefit a lot from TC.