A Survey of EFL Teachers’ Research Engagement

Mehranirad, Mehdi; Behzadpoor, Foad

doi:10.22049/jalda.2022.27469.1365

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

Mehdi Mehranirad ¹
Foad Behzadpoor ²

¹ Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, English Department, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, University of Neyshabur, Neyshabur, Iran, http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6825-2042

² Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, English Department, Faculty of Literature & Humanities, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7565-7785

https://doi.org/10.22049/jalda.2022.27469.1365

Abstract

The field of language teaching has recently witnessed a resurgent wave of interest in the value of educational research and its impact on teachers’ practice. Consequently, various strands of inquiry have commenced to investigate the relationship between research and practice. Within these discussions, however, the opinions of teachers are mostly ignored or reflected only circumstantially. The purpose of this study was to take teachers’ views about research on board by exploring the extent to which they use and conduct research as well as the barriers that may hinder their research engagement. To collect data, a survey questionnaire was designed and validated through soliciting experts’ opinions and conducting factor analysis. The questionnaire was then administered among a large sample of Iranian English teachers. Participants’ responses showed moderate levels of research engagement among English teachers. Results also indicated that four categories of barriers can best account for teachers’ lack of research engagement: problems related to the nature and quality of research, restrictive educational policies, lack of systematic partnership, and problems associated with the use of research in educational settings. The findings suggest that the research-practice division is the result of a complex interaction of an array of factors that cannot be simply reduced to technical matters. Thus, reconfiguration of the gap requires multidimensional strands of development in research and practice communities as well as in educational policies.

Keywords

20.1001.1.28208986.2022.10.1.5.8

Main Subjects

Language teacher education

Article Title [Persian]

بررسی ارتباط معلمان زبان انگلیسی با پژوهش

Authors [Persian]

دکتر مهدی مهرانی راد ¹
دکتر فؤاد بهزادپور ²

¹ دانشیار زبانشناسی کاربردی، گروه زبان انگلیسی، دانشکدۀ ادبیات و علوم انسانی، دانشگاه نیشابور، نیشابور، ایران

² استادیار زبانشناسی کاربردی، گروه زبان انگلیسی، دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی، دانشگاه شهید مدنی آذربایجان، تبریز، ایران

Abstract [Persian]

ارزش پژوهش و قابلیت تاثیرگذاری آن بر فعالیتهای آموزشی معلمان در سالهای اخیر مورد توجه بسیاری از پژوهشگران در رشته آموزش زبان بوده است. در این رابطه، تحقیقات مختلفی با هدف بهبود ارتباط بین پژوهش و عملکرد آموزشی صورت گرفته است. لیکن بررسیها نشان میدهد که در این پژوهشها دیدگاه معلمان به عنوان مهمترین کنشگران آموزشی چندان مورد توجه نبوده است. پژوهش پیش رو با هدف بررسی دیدگاه معلمان نسبت به بکارگیری یافتههای پژوهشی در آموزش زبان انجام شده است. بدین منظور، نخست پرسشنامهای برای تعیین میزان ارتباط معلمان با پژوهش و نیز بررسی موانع موجود در این راه تهیه شد. پس از مشخص شدن روایی و پایایی، به منظور گردآوری دادهها، پرسشنامه در بین بیش از پانصد معلم زبان انگلیسی توزیع شد. تحلیل پاسخهای معلمان نشان داد که ارتباط ایشان با پژوهشهای دانشگاهی به میزان متوسط هست، اما معلمانی که دارای مدارک دانشگاهی بالاتر و تجربه آموزشی کمتری هستند، تمایل بیشتری به انجام فعالیتهای پژوهشی دارند. علاوه براین یافتههای این پژوهش موید اینست که موانع بکارگیری پژوهش در آموزش زبان را میتوان به چهار گروه تقسیم کرد: موانع مرتبط با ماهیت و کیفیت پژوهشها، موانع مرتبط با سیاستهای آموزشی، موانع مربوط به عدم ارتباط سازنده بین محققان و معلمان، و موانع مرتبط با اجرایی شدن یافتههای پژوهشی در کلاسهای آموزش زبان. تحلیل آماری وزنی هر یک از موانع نیز نشان داد که عدم حمایتهای فکری و مالی، نبود سامانه جامع پژوهشی، و نداشتن دانش کافی معلمان برای درک محتوای پژوهشهای دانشگاهی از مهمترین دلایل عدم کاربست پژوهش در نظام آموزش زبان به شمار میرود.

Keywords [Persian]

کاربست پژوهش های دانشگاهی
دیدگاه معلمان
عملکرد آموزشی

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A Survey of EFL Teachers’ Research Engagement

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Volume 10, Issue 1April 2022Pages 79-98

Volume 10, Issue 1
April 2022
Pages 79-98