English abstract
Understanding the research concept, its obstacles, and
motivation is necessary to provide better academic services and
opportunities for teachers less active in conducting research. To this end,
40 lecturers from an English Language Center with various
qualifications and adequate teaching experiences in the Omani EFL
context were selected as the population of this study. A questionnaire
initially designed by Borg (2009) to measure/gauge? lecturers' views on
research was used to collect the data. The findings revealed that the
lecturers showed lower levels of research engagement due to problems
such as a lack of methodological knowledge, heavy teaching loads, and
unclear job specifications. In addition, objectivity was considered an
essential criterion while conducting research, and published materials
on the Internet were stated to be the primary source of reading about
language-related resources. They also believed that conducting research
would only moderately affect their teaching techniques. The findings of
this study should help reduce the concerns and obstacles among
lecturers and engage them more in the research area by focusing on the
problems and facilitating the use of accessible resources to encourage
them to conduct more research studies. Policymakers, managers,
institutions, and teachers play essential roles in the new way of
developing curricula, which considers teachers as researchers
