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The Relationship between EFL Teachers' Trait Emotional Intelligence and Reflective Practices: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
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Seydi Shahivand, Ehsan; Moradkhani, Shahab – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
This paper reports the results of a study examining whether EFL teachers' emotional intelligence (EI) predicts their degree of involvement in reflective practices (RPs). To this end, 230 Iranian EFL teachers filled out the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire developed by Petrides (2009) and the English Language Teaching Reflection Inventory…
Descriptors: Correlation, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Teacher Characteristics
Emotional Intelligence as the Predictor of Pragmatic Competence: A Closer Look at Iranian EFL Learners' Politeness Strategies
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Shirazi, Masoumeh Ahmadi; Nadoushani, Seyed Mohammad Mousavi – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2016
Interlanguage pragmatics concerns the inspection of interactions among people in society while they are aware of the effects that interaction imposes on them regarding culture, social values and individuals' peculiar interpretations. Of high value in social interaction, politeness is an essential constituent of interlanguage pragmatics. If…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emotional Intelligence, Predictor Variables, Pragmatics
The Construct Validation of a Questionnaire of Social and Cultural Capital
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Pishghadam, Reza; Noghani, Mohsen; Zabihi, Reza – English Language Teaching, 2011
The present study was conducted to construct and validate a questionnaire of social and cultural capital in the foreign language context of Iran. To this end, a questionnaire was designed by picking up the most frequently-used indicators of social and cultural capital. The Factorability of the intercorrelation matrix was measured by two tests:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Cultural Capital, Social Capital