Development and validation of Foreign Language Teacher Support Scale (FLTSS)

Language Testing in Asia

Table 1 Results of EFA and descriptive statistics for the FLTSS items

Item no.	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 4	h²	M	SD	Skewness	Kurtosis
24	.873				.749	3.73	1.20	−.64	−.55
22	.825				.630	3.34	1.34	−.28	−.99
23	.811				.683	3.67	1.24	−.62	−.64
21	.766				.541	3.49	1.33	−.44	−.98
25	.763				.567	3.53	1.34	−.52	−.93
19	.751				.612	3.92	1.10	−.80	−.28
20	.687				.584	4.08	1.04	−.97	.06
11		.791			.585	4.13	.90	−.72	−.40
7		.735			.513	4.14	.88	−.74	−.28
8		.722			.569	4.17	.94	−.89	−.16
10		.698			.495	3.97	.92	−.55	−.55
6		.693			.488	3.92	.93	−.44	−.69
9		.682			.459	3.97	.90	−.46	−.70
12		.654			.476	3.87	.95	−.37	−.87
13			.766		.549	3.80	1.02	−.48	−.72
18			.723		.492	3.67	1.00	−.26	−.77
14			.712		.502	3.75	1.03	−.50	−.54
15			.703		.530	3.62	1.06	−.33	−.68
17			.679		.494	3.52	1.08	−.20	−.85
16			.661		.447	3.71	1.01	−.34	−.68
2				.780	.558	3.76	.95	−.39	−.60
1				.768	.572	3.75	.93	−.38	−.41
5				.689	.495	4.00	.96	−.71	−.22
3				.680	.468	3.69	.92	−.19	−.76
4				.642	.473	3.99	.97	−.62	−.48

Extraction method: PAF analysis; Rotation method: Promax with Kaiser normalization, four factors extracted