Iranian EFL Teachers' Views on Professional Ethics and Students’ Success

Professional ethics are standards and morals that individuals or organizations adopt in order to provide the best outcome in a profession and eventually create trust in public. in other words, they are the qualities that people expect to find in workers, teacher etc. professional ethics have been explored in different vocations and jobs, but it has rarely been discussed in educational context especially in iran. the aim of this study was to investigate the opinions of efl teachers on professional ethics and whether teachers qualified as ethical, can improve the success of students. in order to reach the objectives of this study, the researcher asked 101 efl teachers to fill out the professional ethics view questionnaire. based on the results efl teachers maintained positive idea regarding professional ethics in educational context and they believed that they should adhere to ethics in their profession. the participants also stated that commitment to professional ethics improves their teaching quality and eventually their students’ success in classroom. finally, the ethical code with the highest mean score was “efl teachers should up-to-date their knowledge for their classes”. this study has implications for efl teachers and teacher trainers.