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Khosravany Fard, H., Pishghadam, R., Hosseini Fatemi, A. (2015). A Look into the Association between Life-Wise Syllabus and Teacher Success: A Quantitative Study in an EFL Context. Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice, 8(16), 140-164.
Hamid Khosravany Fard; Reza Pishghadam; Azar Hosseini Fatemi. "A Look into the Association between Life-Wise Syllabus and Teacher Success: A Quantitative Study in an EFL Context". Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice, 8, 16, 2015, 140-164.
Khosravany Fard, H., Pishghadam, R., Hosseini Fatemi, A. (2015). 'A Look into the Association between Life-Wise Syllabus and Teacher Success: A Quantitative Study in an EFL Context', Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice, 8(16), pp. 140-164.
Khosravany Fard, H., Pishghadam, R., Hosseini Fatemi, A. A Look into the Association between Life-Wise Syllabus and Teacher Success: A Quantitative Study in an EFL Context. Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice, 2015; 8(16): 140-164.

A Look into the Association between Life-Wise Syllabus and Teacher Success: A Quantitative Study in an EFL Context

Article 6, Volume 8, Issue 16, Winter and Spring 2015, Page 140-164  XML PDF (144.28 K)
Document Type: Research Paper
Authors
Hamid Khosravany Fard* ; Reza Pishghadam; Azar Hosseini Fatemi
English Department of the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Abstract
The current study aimed at investigating the relationship between life-wise syllabus- as a new type of syllabus which emerged as the result of recent developments in applied ELT and corresponding to the "education for life"- and teacher success in an EFL context. Life-wise syllabus introduced by Pishghadam in 2011 directed English teachers’ attention to give priority to life issues rather than language in class. These new concepts encourage curriculum development based on life and all of its manifestations which is the core principle of humanistic education. Then teaching should not only comprise mathematics, chemistry, or literature, but also emotions, relationships, attitudes, thinking styles, feelings, and states of mind. Due to the recent emergence of this syllabus and the dearth of research over its effectiveness, this research study was carried out to shed more light on the issue. To this end, 200 teachers- 100 from private sector and 100 from public sector- and their 1771 students were chosen as the participants of the research study from Mashhad and Ghaen cities. In this study, the teachers were given "Life-Responsive Language Teaching beliefs Questionnaire" (hereafter LRLTB), and their students were given the "Characteristics of Successful EFL Teachers Questionnaire" (hereafter CSET). The results of the correlational study indicated that the main variables and also their subscales were highly correlated. The comparison between male and female teachers regarding correlation between variables did not show any significant difference. But the comparison between private and public school teachers in terms of the relationship between the variables displayed that they were more strongly correlated for the latter.
Keywords
Life-responsive language teaching belief; Life syllabus; Teacher success
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