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Derginin Adı:
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Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research (IJLTR)
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Cilt:
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2015/3
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Sayı:
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1
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Makale Başlık:
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English teachers’ research engagement: Level of engagement and motivation
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Makale Alternatif Dilde Başlık:
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Alternatif dilde başlık bulunmamaktadır. There is no article title in another language.)
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Makale Eklenme Tarihi:
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30.10.2015
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Okunma Sayısı:
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1
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Makale Özeti:
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The gap between research and practice has been an endemic feature of the Iranian English language
teaching profession. This concern has recently received major attention by the call for empirical
investigationsto be conducted in order to improve the relationship between research and practice. The
purpose of the present study was to investigate the extent to which Iranian English teachers engage in
doing and reading research. The study also aimed at exploring the motivations that can promote
teachers’ research engagement. Data were collected through conducting qualitative interviews with 24
teachers with various teaching backgrounds. Analysis of the data revealed moderate level of research
engagement. The results also showed a wide range of motivations, including teachers’ professional
development, instrumental incentives, institutional expectations and pedagogical concerns that can
promote teachers’ research engagement. Further analyses demonstrated that teachers’ professional
development and pedagogical concerns remain their main motivations for research engagement.
Instrumental incentives and organizational expectations comprise other potential motivations that can
be profitably used to encourage teachers’ research engagement. However, this is not likely to happen
unless working conditions in Iranian schools and policy conditions in national education system are
altered.
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Alternatif Dilde Özet:
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