Exploring EFL Teachers’ Socioaffective and Pedagogic Strategies and Students’ Willingness to Communicate with a Focus on Iranian Culture

Table 3

Teachers’ perspectives on socioaffective and pedagogic strategies in raising WTC.

Main categories	Subcategories	Number and % of mentions
(1) Facilitating factors		199
	Developing positive relationship
	Immediacy	46 (23.1%)
	Teachers’ support	46 (23.1%)
	Fairness	14 (7%)
	Teachers’ enthusiasm	22 (11%)
	Choice of the topic	26 (13%)
	Teaching style
	Challenging activities	13 (6.7%)
	Error correction	17 (8.8%)
	Teachers’ congruence	15 (7.7%)
(2) Hindering factors		62
	Teachers’ role	35 (56.5%)
	Teaching style	12 (19.3%)
	Institutional expectations	15 (24%)