Mindfulness-Based Training and Clinical Supervision for EFL Teachers: The Impact on EFL Learners’ Overall Achievement

Mindfulness-based training (MBT) and clinical supervision (CS) are two alternative approaches in education with promising results reported in the English as a foreign language (EFL) literature. Accordingly, this study explored the differential impacts of MBT and CS for EFL teachers on the achievement of the learners they taught. The teacher and learner participants, selected non-randomly through convenience sampling, comprised 64 teachers and 663 of their learners teaching and learning English at one private language school in Tehran. The teachers were randomly divided into two equal groups of 32 participants. There were 327 learners in the CS group of teachers and 336 learners in the MBT group of teachers. Prior to the treatment, the two learner groups took a sample Preliminary English Test (PET) as the pretest. Next, one of the teacher groups underwent CS while the second group was exposed to MBT. After the treatment, both learner groups who had been taught by the two groups of teachers took another sample PET as the posttest. The results revealed that the learners taught by the MBT group outperformed those taught by the CS group significantly. Stakeholders are encouraged to raise teachers’ awareness concerning the benefits of MBT .