چکیده:
The present study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between teaching style
and personality type of a sample of Iranian EFL teachers, using the Teaching
Activities Preference (TAP) questionnaire (Cooper, 2001) and Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator, MBTI (Myers & Myers, 1998). A third instrument called Students’
Perceptions of Teachers’ Success of Failure (SPTSF) questionnaire, developed by
the researchers, was also used to examine the relationship between personality types
of iranian EFL teachers and their students’ perceptions of the teachers’ success or
failure. The participants of the study comprised of 51 EFL teachers and 300 high
school students, The results indicated significant differences among the MBTI types
based on the teachers’ teaching style preferences. Each personality type represented
a particular teaching style. There was also a relationship between students’
perceptions of their teachers’ success or failure based on the teachers’ personality
types. It was found that Introverting, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving (INTP),
Extroverting, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging (ENTJ), and Extroverting, Intuitive,
Thinking, Perceiving (ENTP) teacher types were more successful than others as
reported by the students. The type distribution and the predominance of Introverting,
Sensing, Thinking, Judging (IST), and Extroverting, Sensing, Thinking, Judging
(ESTJ) types among Iranian EFL teachers were other findings of this research.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The participants of the study comprised of 51 EFL teachers and 300 high school students, The results indicated significant differences among the MBTI types based on the teachers' teaching style preferences.
when developing the MBTI, added the two types of Judgment (I) and Perception (P) to determine the individuals' preferences in dealing Vol. 8, No. 1, March 2005 3 with the outer world (Wolk and Nikolai, 1997), Table (1) briefly summarizes the four bipolar scales of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator: Table I.
Research Questions Regarding what was discussed in the theoretical background, the following study is aimed to investigate the relationship between personality types of teachers and their teaching style preferences.
Instrumentation Three instruments were used in the present study: [he Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (M13T1), the Teaching Activities Preference (TAP) questionnaire, and the Students' Perception of Teachers' Success or Failure (SPTSF) questionnaire, each of which is described below: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) The MBTI is one of the most widely used psychological tests administered today (Hughes, 1994).
Results The null hypothesis for the first research question was: "There Isn't any relationship between personality types of Iranian EFL teachers and their teaching style preferences".
The findings showed the existence of such relationship by assigning a set of particular teaching styles to different personalities based on the scales of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.