Uncovering the Reasons of EFL Teachers’ Unwillingness and Demotivation towards Being More Assessment Literate

The current study investigates the reasons of EFL teachers’ unwillingness and demotivation towards being more assessment literate. 19 teachers working in preparatory programs various state universities took part study, data were collected via semi-structured interviews. Those deliberately chosen from 27 based on their negative utterances literate relation to aim study. obtained participants with respect two interview questions transcribed, coded labelled according recurrent common themes qualitative content scheme Creswell (2012). findings revealed that why participating unwilling demotivated be resulted five factors; a) seeing language as an extra burden, b) presence testing office materials, c) anxiety-provoking factor, d) institutional factors e) rarity ways improve oneself. Apart shedding light learn about assessment, this also comes up implications for research suggestions