An investigation into the relationship among EFL teachers’ reflection, classroom management orientations, and perceptions of language learning strategies and students’ L2 achievement

The  present  study  was  conducted  to  investigate  the  relationship  among  three  important  teacher variables and students’ L2 achievement. To this end, 105 high school EFL teachers from Shiraz and Hamadan were asked to fill out three sets of instruments: the reflective teaching instrument, (Akbari, Behzadpour  &  Dadvand,  2010),  the  Attitudes  and  Beliefs  on  Classroom  Control  Inventory  (Martin, Yin,  &  Baldwin,  1998),  and  the  Strategy  Inventory  for  Language  Learning  (Ardasheva  &  Tretter, 2013).  Also,  the  scores  of  the  English  final  exams  of  2673  third-grade  high  school  students  were collected. The  results  of  Pearson  Product  Moment  Correlations  revealed  that  there  was  a  significant correlation  between  the  above-mentioned  three  teachers’  variables  and  their  students’  L2 achievement.  The  results  also  showed  a  significant  difference  between  male  and  female  teachers  in the  degree  of  perceptions  of  LLSs,  while  no  significant  differences  were  found  between  the  two genders  regarding  their  classroom  management  orientations  and  reflection.  Moreover,  running multiple  regression  analysis,  it  was  revealed  that  among  the teachers’ variables, reflection was  the strongest  predicator  of  students’ L2 achievement. Finally, based on the results of this study, some practical implications for maximizing students’ L2 achievement in English language classrooms are presented.