Abstract
Passion is a psychological concept which outlines that someone, at large, and in the domain of education in particular, a teacher loves a discipline, i.e. a field of knowledge, and gets involved and seriously engaged in doing all its related issues and matters in such a way, that entails advantages and benefits to all the parties concerned. This research aims at investigating the passion of teachers of English in Iraqi preparatory schools in teaching English and identifying the differences, if any, between male and female teachers in terms of their passion to teach the subject. It hypothesizes that the teachers in question have the passion to teach English and that there are no differences between the male and female teachers in this respect. The research is limited to a sample of 30 male and female teachers of English at the preparatory level that follows the primary level for 6 years and the intermediate level for 3 years and lasts 3 years, during the academic year 2023-2024. To bring about the aims of the research and validate the hypotheses, a closed-ended 30-item questionnaire that has been designed according to a 5-point scale ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree and the validity and reliability of which have been approved, has been administered to the randomly selected sample of teachers of English. The findings of the research indicate that teachers of English at the preparatory level have a strong passion to teach English and that there are no differences between male and female teachers of English at the researched level of study in terms of their passion to teach the subject. It is expected that the results of the current research would be beneficial to teachers of English at all study levels in Iraqi schools.
Keywords: – Passion, Teaching English, Preparatory Level.
Ru’a Salim Mahmood*