Impact of EFL teachers' job satisfaction and their introversion/extroversion towards their instructional strategy use

In teaching and learning a second or foreign language, individual differences and affective factors have recently received great importance and attention from psychological and pedagogical point of views. Accordingly, the current research attempted to explore the impact of extroversion and introvers...

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Main Authors: Kafipour, Reza, Noordin, Nooreen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Innovare Academics Sciences 2020
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/89280/1/JOB.pdf
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description In teaching and learning a second or foreign language, individual differences and affective factors have recently received great importance and attention from psychological and pedagogical point of views. Accordingly, the current research attempted to explore the impact of extroversion and introversion as personal traits on job satisfaction among Iranian English as foreign language learners (EFL). Apart from that, the study also attempted to clarify the impact of these factors on EFL teachers' instructional strategy use through teaching L2 and classroom activities. Eighty EFL learners were selected as the participants for the study. In collecting the data, three instruments were utilized: a personality questionnaire, job satisfaction questionnaire and strategy inventory for language learning. The collected data were scored, classified, and interpreted by Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software. The obtained statistical results were reported in three sections. Firstly, the findings revealed that introvert Iranian EFL teachers were more satisfied than their extrovert counterparts even though this difference was not statistically significant. Secondly, the EFL teachers were more satisfied with the use of“Memory Strategy ” as an instructional strategy in their teaching. On the other hand, they were least satisfied with the “Social Strategy” as an instructional strategy in teaching. Finally, as indicated in the results obtained, EFL teachers with different levels of job satisfaction did not utilize different types of instructional strategies as expected. In other words, there was no statistically significant correlation between the level of job satisfaction and teachers’ instructional strategy use.
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spelling upm.eprints-892802021-09-20T23:10:57Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/89280/ Impact of EFL teachers' job satisfaction and their introversion/extroversion towards their instructional strategy use Kafipour, Reza Noordin, Nooreen In teaching and learning a second or foreign language, individual differences and affective factors have recently received great importance and attention from psychological and pedagogical point of views. Accordingly, the current research attempted to explore the impact of extroversion and introversion as personal traits on job satisfaction among Iranian English as foreign language learners (EFL). Apart from that, the study also attempted to clarify the impact of these factors on EFL teachers' instructional strategy use through teaching L2 and classroom activities. Eighty EFL learners were selected as the participants for the study. In collecting the data, three instruments were utilized: a personality questionnaire, job satisfaction questionnaire and strategy inventory for language learning. The collected data were scored, classified, and interpreted by Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software. The obtained statistical results were reported in three sections. Firstly, the findings revealed that introvert Iranian EFL teachers were more satisfied than their extrovert counterparts even though this difference was not statistically significant. Secondly, the EFL teachers were more satisfied with the use of“Memory Strategy ” as an instructional strategy in their teaching. On the other hand, they were least satisfied with the “Social Strategy” as an instructional strategy in teaching. Finally, as indicated in the results obtained, EFL teachers with different levels of job satisfaction did not utilize different types of instructional strategies as expected. In other words, there was no statistically significant correlation between the level of job satisfaction and teachers’ instructional strategy use. Innovare Academics Sciences 2020 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/89280/1/JOB.pdf Kafipour, Reza and Noordin, Nooreen (2020) Impact of EFL teachers' job satisfaction and their introversion/extroversion towards their instructional strategy use. Journal of Critical Reviews, 7 (13). 568 - 574. ISSN 2394-5125 http://www.jcreview.com/?mno=119056 10.31838/jcr.07.13.102
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title_short Impact of EFL teachers' job satisfaction and their introversion/extroversion towards their instructional strategy use
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