balancing accountability and job satisfaction: insights into teachers burnout in modern education

Today, learning english is playing an important role to communicate with other societies for some purposes. english teachers have a deniable role in learning english language process. in this study, the researcher focused on accountability and job satisfaction as two positive factors of a successful teachers. on the other hand, burnout as a negative factor that teachers may face in their job was studied in this research. the principal aim of this study was to discover the possible significant correlation of iranian english teachers’ accountability with their job satisfaction and burnout. to fulfill the aim of this study, a hundred and ten male and female english teachers took part in the current study based on a selective sampling. the participants were teachers who teach english at schools of ministry of education in iran. their age range was from 24 to 65 and they had at least 1 year of teaching experience. three instruments were used in this study including job accountability questionnaire, job satisfaction questionnaire, teacher burnout questionnaire. pearson-product moment was applied to analyze the collected data. the results of this study indicated that there was a positive significant relationship between teachers’ accountability and their job satisfaction. in addition, the results of this study revealed a negative significant relationship between teachers’ accountability and their burnout. the results of interview also showed the language teachers had positive views toward job accountability. this study also represented practical and effective implications on accountability, job satisfaction and burnout for language teachers and syllabus designers.