Implementation of Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Principles İn ELT Teacher Training

Abstract

Recently Emotional Intelligence (EQ) has become the hottest wordsthat many researchers have taken into consideration. Today EQ is considered one of the major issues for steff training in many companies and in educational fields as well. So in this study, EQ will be taken into account as a guiding principle to set up a new in-service non-native teacher training syllabus in ELT.ELT teacher shoult be able to navigate their own emotions and feeling as well as their students’for the sake of success in ELT learning/teaching atmosphere. Besides they can guide their students’ potential feeling and emotions to acquire/develop necessary linguistic skills to be able to succeed in the acquisition of foreing language skills.So far IQ, also called traditional intelligance, has beeb a predominant factor as for describing a person’s intelligance; but it has been realized that IQ by itself is not a very good predictor of job performance. In this context, the main cocem in the study is to discuss how we can utilize EQ principles in ELT non-native Teacher Training and have better results from ELT in class. However , another purpose of this paper is put an emp hasis on the implementation of the EQ principles in Froing Language Teaching. The results obtained from a questionnaire given to the EFL teachers from sever different schools and various teaching levels will be evaluated and discussed in the paper and some specific solutions will be searched as to create a non threatening atmosphere in a no-native ELT environment.