خلاصة:
The purpose of the study was to examine how teacher motivational practice might influence Iranian EFL Learners’ Request and Refusal Speech Acts Production. To this end, five instruments were used to provide appropriate responses to research questions: (a) Quick Placement Test (b) the Motivational Orientation of Language Teaching classroom observation scheme, (c) the Post-Lesson Teacher Evaluation scale, (d) student motivational state questionnaire and (e) Discourse Completion Task administered to 300 male students from 12 classes (upper intermediate senior high schools of 6 districts in Isfahan, Iran. The research indicates that, there is statistically significant difference between the students in high motivation index teachers’ (HMIT) classes and low motivation teachers’ (LMIT) classes with respect to their request speech act posttest scores. There was also a statistically significant difference between the students in HMIT and LMIT classes concerning their refusal speech act posttest scores. So it seems a must for the EFL curriculum developers at Iranian ministry of education and training to think about remedies for improving motivation among their EFL teachers for persuading their students to provide more practical and real opportunities to use English in a class and so on.
ملخص الجهاز:
mpact of Teacher Motivational Practice on Iranian EFL Learners’ Request and Refusal Speech Acts Production Ahmad Molavi*, Ph. D Cadidate, Department of English, Isfahan Branch (Khorasgan), Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran tfl2015@yahoo.
To this end, five instruments were used to provide appropriate responses to research questions: (a) Quick Placement Test (b) the Motivational Orientation of Language Teaching classroom observation scheme, (c) the Post-Lesson Teacher Evaluation scale, (d) student motivational state questionnaire and (e) Discourse Completion Task administered to 300 male students from 12 classes (upper intermediate senior high schools of 6 districts in Isfahan, Iran.
Instruments Five instruments were used to provide appropriate responses to the research questions: (a) Quick Placement Test (QPT-the original version which is used in this study and its reliability and validity has already been measured by Oxford University Press and University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate) to distinguish the participants language proficiency level, (b) the Motivational Orientation of Language Teaching classroom observation scheme (MOLT which was in English as it was used by the researcher, developed by Guilloteaux and D¨ornyei (2008)), (c) the Post-Lesson Teacher Evaluation scale, (both were used to study teacher motivational behavior in class), (d) student motivational state questionnaire (SMS was in English as it was used by the researcher, developed by Guilloteaux and D¨ornyei (2008)) used to measure motivational intensity of the participants, and (e) the Discourse Completion Task (DCT which was developed and validated by Jalilifar (2009), translated into Persian to ascertain ease of understanding) for the measurement of the participants’ request and refusal speech acts production.