The Attitudes of Iranian EFL Learners toward Cross- Cultural Factors in Language Learning مقالة

مؤلف: Javdani، Farzane ؛ Mahboudi، Hamid Reza ؛ Ghafoori، Naser ؛

English Language Pedagogy and Practice Fall 2009 - Number 5 ISC (‎31 صفحة - من 99 إلی 129 )

الکلمات المفتاحية: attitude Cross-Cultural Factors Culture as Content Cultural Background Cultural Distance Intermediate

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The cultural background in language teaching has, for a number of reasons, recently moved to the foreground. Broadly speaking, there has been a shift in emphasis in course design from a pre-occupation with form to an interest in content. This article describes the results of a survey designed to elicit the views of students on what language teaching should be about. 400 students learning English in Kish-Language Institute, Kashan branch were chosen as participants of the study based on their proficiency level (Starter, Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced) in order to answer the questionnaire. Each question was designed in the form of a five point Likert Scale. The results were analysed using Binomial and MANOVA Tests. The obtained Results in this study indicate that except for Elementary level, other levels favoured bilingual/bicultural teacher. In relation to varieties of English, American English was liked most by Intermediate and Advanced students. All students had an overall positive attitude towards the native speaker pronunciation and finally the most favoured course contents were revealed to be science and social facts, students’ past experiences, English/American Literature along with culture of other countries.

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"400 students learning English in Kish-Language Institute, Kashan branch were chosen as participants of the study based on their proficiency level (Starter, Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced) in order to answer the questionnaire. All students had an overall positive attitude towards the native speaker pronunciation and finally the most favoured course contents were revealed to be science and social facts, students’ past experiences, English/American Literature along with culture of other countries. The main aim of this study is to find and identify the type of that relationship (positive or negative) among different levels of EFL students (Starter, Elementary, Intermediate, & Advanced) studying English at Kish Language Institute of Science and Technology, Kashan Branch. Results and Discussion The results of the present study will be presented by discussing students’ reactions to the following concepts: - The Bilingual Bicultural Teacher (Question 1-2) - Varieties of English (Question 3-5) - Native Speaker Pronunciation (Question 6) - The content of the language teaching materials (Questions 7-15) In order to investigate students’ attitudes a one way MANOVA was used to extract the overall mean for each question within each separate level comprising the population of the study and a Binomial Test was used to classify results from Likert scale for each question and within each level."

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