RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 A four-stage assessment of AUL (Azerbaijan University of Languages) teachers’ abilities to adapt innovative teaching approaches A1 Mammadova, Tamilla K1 Assessment K1 English language teaching K1 Evaluation K1 Innovations K1 Teachers K1 Testing K1 Valoración K1 Enseñanza de inglés K1 Evaluación K1 Innovación K1 Profesorado K1 Testing K1 Filología K1 Philology AB The purpose of this article is to investigate the best teacher evaluation method that can reveal English languageteachers’ abilities to adapt to modern teaching approaches under the conditions of innovative and progressive languageteaching trends. It is also extremely important to find out the general problems that prevent some of the teachers fromusing innovative ELT approaches and techniques. Thus, within the general area of teachers’ assessment, twentyteachers from Azerbaijan University of Languages with the work experience of over fifteen years have been selected fora four-stage evaluation process that consisted of general English language knowledge testing, class managementobservation, teachers’ self-evaluation, and evaluation of the selected teachers done by their students. The analysis of thecompleted assessment demonstrates that the best method of teachers’ evaluation is class management observation, sincethree other assessment methods seem to be subjective and often groundless. When it comes to the problems preventingthe use of innovative approaches, the most outstanding reasons are the inability of teachers to use technology, and theirunwillingness to adapt to innovations, considering old methods to be the most prominent ones. PB Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alcalá SN 1989-0796 YR 2014 FD 2014 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/21581 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/21581 LA eng DS MINDS@UW RD 29-mar-2024