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Table 2 Semi-structured interview questions, their functions, and sources

From: Development and validation of a potential assessment inventory for assessing EFL teachers’ ecological agency

Question

Function

Source

1. How can teachers’ past personal experiences affect their professional agency?

Iterational

Priestley et al. (2015). Teacher Agency: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?. In Flip the System (pp. 134-148). Routledge.

2. How can teachers’ past professional experiences affect their professional agency?

Iterational

3. How can cultural resources such as ideas, values, beliefs, discourses, and dialogues facilitate or hinder teachers’ professional agency?

Practical-evaluative

4. How can structural resources such as roles, relationships, power, and trust facilitate or hinder teachers’ professional agency?

Practical-evaluative

5. How can material resources and physical environments facilitate or hinder teachers’ professional agency?

Practical-evaluative

6. How can teachers’ short-term goals affect their professional agency?

Projective

7. How can teachers’ long-term goals affect their professional agency?

Projective