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Showing 3 results for Personality
Goudarz Alibakhshi,
Volume 14, Issue 1 (3-2011)
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Learning styles are assumed to be consistent with personality characteristics of individuals (Brown, 2003 Kolb, 1984). Teachers’ teaching efficacy (Bandura, 1997, 1977, 1995 Wheatley, 2001) has also been found to be important in educational reform. However, the impacts of gender and personality on language teachers' teaching efficacy and teaching activities preferences have not been adequately explored. This study was an attempt to investigate the impacts of personality and gender on Iranian English teachers' teaching activities preferences and their teaching efficacy. To accomplish this, 280 male and female English language teachers participated in the study. Myers -Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), teaching efficacy, and teaching activities preference questionnaires were used. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics and Two ANOVA tests were used .The results of the study showed that ESTJ (extroverted, sensing, thinking, and judging) and ISTJ (introverted, sensing, thinking, and judging) were predominant personality types among Iranian EFL teachers. Results also indicated that both male and female teachers with different personality types have the same sense of teaching efficacy. It was also revealed that gender and personality influence teachers' teaching activities preferences.
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Volume 16, Issue 2 (9-2013)
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This study examined the Iranian EFL learners’ multicultural developmental trend in light of Investment Hypothesis as they furthered their academic studies from BA toward postgraduate levels. In so doing 117 BA, 92 MA, and 35 Ph.D. EFL students at AllamehTabataba’i University, Tarbiat Modarres, and Islamic Azad Universities, Tehran, Iran, were randomly selected to provide answers to Multicultural Personality Traits Questionnaire (MPQ) that measures individuals’ Multicultural Personality Traits (MPTs: Cultural Empathy, Open-Mindedness, Social Initiative, Emotional Stability, and Flexibility). Ph.D. students’ MPTs mean was found to be 277.77 MA students’ MPTs mean score was 272.20 and BA students’ MPTs mean score was 267.96. The ANOVA conducted revealed that EFL Iranian students’ MPTs improved as they furthered their academic career from BA to MA and from MA to Ph.D. levels. The study concluded that advancement in EFL students’ academic career resulted in a concomitant development in their MPTs and among the five MPTs, cultural empathy and social initiative were found to have been significantly improved at Ph.D. level. Among the MPTs, Social initiative provides the highest contribution to social interactions and its significant development at Ph.D. level is confirmatory of the discursive-constructionists’ approach to L2 learning.
Farnoush Ahangaran, Sana Javanmard Gholenji,
Volume 27, Issue 2 (9-2024)
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The present study strived to determine the extent to which Iranian novice and experienced EFL teachers’ self-efficacy and personality predicted their teaching motivation by considering the meditating role of their writing ability. To this end, the researchers used convenience sampling to select 176 novice and 159 experienced EFL teachers at 37 language institutes in Urmia (Iran) as the participants. Moreover, they administered the demographic information questionnaire, teaching motivation questionnaire, self-efficacy questionnaire, personality questionnaire, and the writing test of the study to the participants in a two-week period. Furthermore, the researchers took advantage of a reliable framework for assessing the participants’ writing performance. Finally, the researchers used SPSS 24 and Amos 22 to perform the data analysis of the study. The results indicated that novice and experienced teachers’ self-efficacy and personality were significant predictors of their teaching motivation. Moreover, their writing ability significantly mediated the relationships between their self-efficacy, personality, and teaching motivation. The results may provide teacher educators, syllabus designers, and teachers with guidelines on the role teacher factors have in the process of language teaching.
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