The relationship between school teacher’s English teaching style and optimism perception in Birjand

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between school teachers' English teaching style and optimism perception in Birjand. The research population includes all teachers in the city of Birjand and statistical sample consists of 100 people of them that are chosen using simple random sampling method. Data were collected and extracted using two questionnaires, Grasha teaching style and Byrdet. al. school teachers' optimism perception. Spss software was used for data analysis and Pearson correlation coefficient was calculated for variables. The research findings detected that there is a meaningful relationship between formal authority teaching style, personal model teaching style, facilitator and agentive with school teachers' optimism perception, but there is no meaningful relationship between expert style with school teachers' optimism perception. As the final result, it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between teaching style and school teacher’s optimism perception and that the teaching style effects noticeably on school teachers' optimism perception.