When the evil pops in: exploring the unheard voices of teachers working in private language schools in Iran concerning supervisory observation

The purpose of this paper is to examine the reasons behind teachers’ negative attitudes about classroom observation. This multiple-case study interviewed five teachers from different private language schools in Iran. The themes emerging from in-depth interviews suggest that the negative attitudes could be related to the observer effect, teacher’s performance anxiety, lack of external motivation, ambiguity of the purpose of observation, the...