ERIC Number: EJ1168473
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 16
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Teacher's Personality Type and Techniques of Teaching Pronunciation
Shabani, Karim; Ghasemian, Atefeh
Cogent Education, v4 n1 Article 1313560 2017
The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to identify the most frequent techniques of teaching pronunciation used by Iranian EFL teachers and, (b) to find out any relationship between teacher's extroversion/introversion personality type and their techniques of teaching pronunciation. To this end, following an online survey a cohort of 60 teachers out of 200 participated in this study. Based on the results of Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) questionnaire, they were classified into introvert and extrovert groups. Then, a checklist was used to elicit their mostly favored techniques of teaching pronunciation. The collected data were analyzed through SPSS software. The results of descriptive analysis indicated that from among 19 pronunciation teaching techniques, listen and imitate and reading aloud and recitation were the most frequent ones used by both introverted and extroverted teachers. Moreover, the results of chi-square test showed a significant relationship between the extroverted and introverted teachers in the use of pronunciation techniques and that the extroverted teachers significantly used more of the mentioned techniques than the introvert teachers.
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Personality Traits, Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Extraversion Introversion, Teacher Surveys, Neurosis, Personality Measures, Check Lists, Statistical Analysis, Preferences, Comparative Analysis
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Iran
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Eysenck Personality Inventory
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