Research article

Stylistic Perspectives to Language Teaching and Learning:(two cameras angled for a single cross-way)
 

*¹Mina Rahmani and ²Gholamreza Abbasian

¹Student in TEFL at Tabriz University

²Imam Ali University and Islamic Azad University of Tehran, South Branch
 

*Corresponding Author Email: mina.rahmani@yahoo.com, ²Email: gabbasian@gmail.com

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Accepted 24 June, 2013

Abstract

Though teaching and learning associate two sides of one coin, each is assumed to be approached stylistically in different ways by teachers and learners as far as the issues of teaching and learning styles are concerned, respectively. In line with this perspective, this study is an inquiry into the extent to which language teachers and learners’ teaching-learning styles match or vary, particularly in the light of the educational setting in which they are involved. To this end, 32 EFL teachers and 72 learners doing their language teaching and learning career from two different EFL settings in Iran; military and non-military ones were selected. Each group received its respective questionnaire addressing teaching and learning styles. Cross comparative analysis of the data showed that neither teachers-teachers and learners-learners nor teachers-learners from both settings do recruit much different styles in the process of teaching and learning. It means the teachers’ teaching styles and the learners’ learning styles are not related to each other.

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