Background 1: Teachers / non-teachers

The first background question in the questionnaire asked if the respondent was or had been a language teacher:

If you are, or have been a teacher, what do you teach / have you taught?

and the choices given to the respondent were: a language

another subject

I have never taught

Table BG-1: The number and proportion of the respondents who were teachers of language, of another subject, or who did not teach

Region of Europe		Teaches a language	Teaches a language and another subject	Teaches another subject (total)	Has never taught	Total (of region)
Northern Europe	Count	267	37	40	2	272
	%	98.2%	13.6%	14.7%	.7%	100.0%
Baltic region	Count	54	5	5	0	54
	%	100.0%	9.3%	9.3%	.0%	100.0%
Western Europe	Count	154	27	29	3	158
	%	97.5%	17.1%	18.4%	1.9%	100.0%
Central Europe	Count	63	13	14	0	64
	%	98.4%	20.3%	21.9%	.0%	100.0%
South-Eastern Europe	Count	132	14	15	0	133
	%	99.2%	10.5%	11.3%	.0%	100.0%
Eastern Europe	Count	114	12	13	5	120
	%	95.0%	10.0%	10.8%	4.2%	100.0%
Southern Europe	Count	49	8	11	2	54
	%	90.7%	14.8%	20.4%	3.7%	100.0%
Total number	Count	833	116	127	12	855
% of total number of respondents (855)	%	97.4%	13.6%	14.9%	1.4%	100.0%

As Table BG-1 shows, almost all European respondents (97.4%) were, or had been, language teachers. Only in Southern Europe was that figure slightly lower: ‘only’ about 91% of them were language teachers. On average, about 15% of the respondents reported that they taught another subject; in most cases, they, however, also taught a language. Only 12 of the total of 855 European respondents reported they had not taught anything in their career. Teachers who were (or had been) teaching both a language and another subject were relatively more frequent among our central European respondents (20%), followed by Western and Southern Europeans, whereas it was less common in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and in the Baltic region.