Background of the respondents in the EALTA survey
– a regional view

In this section of the report we will describe the background of the respondents to the ENLTA/EALTA survey, region by region. In some cases we will also give an account of their background at the country level – for such countries only where the response rate makes such reporting meaningful. Only the European based respondents (n=855) are included here.

You can access the description of the respondents’ background directly from the menu below.

List of background questions in the questionnaire, and Definition of the regions used in this report can be found below (scroll down).

Description of the background of the respondents (please click):

Summary of the descriptive background information
1: Teachers or non-teachers
2: Languages that the respondents taught
3: Qualifications of the respondents
4: Types of student that the respondents worked with
5: Roles or professions of the respondents

You can also find the above background information as a single PDF file here: Description of background as PDF


The survey contained the following background questions:

 

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

a language
another subject
I have never taught

2. If you teach or have taught a language please complete the list below
(mark all that apply)
(choices given: a long list of European languages)

3. Your qualification:

language degree
teacher training
combination of language degree and teacher training
other qualification

4. Type of student you currently work with (mark all that apply):

Under 10 years old
11 – 15 years old
16 – 18 years old
Adults in university / higher education
Adults in vocational education
Adults in work
Adults in evening classes
Other

5. Your role / profession (mark all that apply):

Language teacher/lecturer
Teacher trainer/educator
Textbook / teaching materials writer
Employee of a testing organization / exam board
Head of a testing organization / exam board
Head of institution / programme
other

1. If you are, or have been a teacher, what do you teach / hav

Definition of the regions used in this report

The regions used in this part of the survey report are defined in the following way:

1 = Northern Europe (Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark)
2 = Baltic region (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)
3 = Western Europe (Ireland, UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands)
4 = Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Czeck rep., Slovakia.)
5 = South-Eastern Europe (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, Greece, Turkey)
6 = Eastern Europe (Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan)
7 = Southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, Malta, Italy, Andorra)

The non-European respondents were removed from these background analyses. Also, the very small number of respondents from ‘other European countries’ were removed as it was not possible to place them into any region of Europe.