چکیده:
An understanding of language as ‘open, dynamic, constantly evolving and personal encompasses the rich complexities of communication (Shohamy, 2007, p.5). Knowing about the important role of culture as well as psychological aspects of language can give us a broader view of languageteaching and learning. In order to obtain a better understanding of different aspects of language teaching, the present study aims to investigate the possible relationship between Iranian EFL teachers’home-culture attachment and its underlying components, with their emotional intelligence. To this aim two questionnaires namely: Home culture Attachment/dependency and Bar-On EI test were distributed among 80 EFL teachers, both men and women who taught at different levels in state schools in Birjand, Kermanshah and Zabol. Data were analyzed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient and multiple regressions. Finally results of the study revealed no significant relationship between Iranian EFL teachers’ home culture attachment and its underlying components, with their emotional intelligence. The most important result of this study is bringing about awareness for EFL teachers, EFL syllabus designers, teacher educators and policy makers about the important factors in cultural attachment or detachment of Iranian EFL teachers that consequently affects their teaching and transfer of cultural values into their students.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Unpeeling the Onion: On the Relationship among Iranian EFL Teachers’ Home-culture Attachment and Its Underlying Components with Their Emotional Intelligence Abdullah Sarani Associate Professor University of Sistan and Baluchestan sarani_ling@hamoon.
Thus, in order to obtain a better understanding of different aspects of language teaching, the present study aims to investigate the possible relationship among Iranian EFL teachers’ home-culture attachment and its underlying components, with their emotional intelligence.
Finally, results of the study revealed that there is no significant relationship between Iranian EFL teachers’ home culture attachment and its underlying components, with their emotional intelligence.
Keywords: Home-Culture Attachment, Culture, Emotional Intelligence, EFL Teachers Received: January 2014; Accepted: September 2014 Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, Vol 6, No 2, 2014 1.
The purpose of the present study is to work on a new dimension of culture and to investigate the possible relationship between Iranian EFL teachers’ home-culture attachment with their emotional intelligence.
Concerning the second hypothesis multiple regressions was used to check if any of the components of Iranian EFL teachers’ home-culture attachment can predict their emotional intelligence.
So the regression model is: Emotional intelligence = constant + × Religious attachment + Western attachment + Iranian attachment + Cultural attachment + Artistic attachment At first all independent variables are inserted into the model: 110 Unpeeling the Onion: On the Relationship among Iranian… Table 2.
6. Discussion and Conclusion The purpose of the present study was to investigate the possible relationship between Iranian EFL teachers’ home-culture attachment with emotional intelligence.