University Instructors' Teaching Experience and Their Perception of Professional Ethics: Postulating a Model.

As Campbell (2008) skillfully explains, "the field of ethics in teaching as a moral profession is a robust and compelling one. It captures the interest and imagination of scholars, researchers, and practitioners alike because it is very important and integral to the world of education" (p.21). Similarly, in many EFL countries including Iran, professional ethics has recently turned into a crucial topic. Consequently, further researches regarding the notion of ethics, its components and whether experience plays a role in this regard, need to be carried out. Throughout the current article, the researchers, at first place, illustrated the importance of professional ethics in teaching through a thorough review of literature. Afterwards, a previously localized code of professional ethics, which was transformed into a validated instrument for data collection, was deployed to gather data from 200 EFL male and female university instructors. Pearson Correlation was administered to investigate the probable relation between EFL university instructors' teaching experience and their understanding of professional ethics. Also, to prioritize the components of professional ethics based on EFL instructors' perspective, Friedman test was deployed and the results are disused according to EFL teaching learning context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]