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این مطالعه به بررسی رابطة بین هوش هیجانی و خودکارآمدی بین 71 معلم زبان انگلیسی در موسسات خصوصی زبان می پردازد. برای این منظور پرسش نامه های خودکارآمدی معلم، هوش هیجانی و خصوصیات مردم شناسی بین معلمین توزیع گردید. نتایج تحقیق حاضر نشان داد که هوش هیجانی معلمین رابطه معنی دار و مستقیمی با خودکارآمدی آنها دارد و می تواند بصورت قابل ملاحظه ای میزان خودکارآمدی را در بین معلمین پیش بینی کند. همچنین نتایج این تحقیق تغییرات چشمگیری را در سطح هوش هیجانی و خودکارآمدی معلمین با توجه به خصوصیات مردم شناسی، وضعیت تأهل و سابقه تدریس نشان داد. بنابراین مضامین تحقیق مورد بحث قرار گرفت و پیشنهادهایی برای تحقیقات آتی داده شد.

This study aims at evaluating the coursebooks taught at the intermediate level of adult and young adult departments of the Iran Language Institute in terms of multiple intelligence types introduced by Gardner (1983) to see to what extent such coursebooks represent the Multiple Intelligence Theory. To fulfill the objectives, a checklist developed by Botelho (2003) and localized by the researchers on the basis of this theory was used. The coursebooks were analyzed according to this checklist and the frequencies and percentages of occurrence of each type of intelligence were calculated. The results of the study showed that verbal/linguistic, logical/mathematical and visual/spatial types of intelligence were the most dominant intelligence types in the analyzed coursebooks. Naturalistic and bodily/kinesthetic types of intelligence were the least common types represented in the coursebooks. A comparison was also made between the coursebooks taught to adults and young adults at the Iran Language Institute and the results presented a significant difference between the percentage of occurrence of logical/mathematical, bodily/kinesthetic, visual/spatial, intrapersonal and musical types of intelligence between the two sets of coursebooks. On the other hand, the difference between the percentage of occurrence of verbal/linguistic, interpersonal and naturalistic types of intelligence was not significant.

Nagy (1988) states that vocabulary is a prerequisite factor in comprehension. Drawing upon a reductionist approach and having in mind the prospects for material development, this study aimed at creating an English for Academic Purposes Word List (EAPWL). The corpus of this study was compiled from a corpus containing 6479 pages of texts, 2,081,678 million tokens (running words) and 63825 types (individual words), and 2615 word families from online resources. The created EAPWL included 636 word families, which accounted for 12%of the tokens in the EAPWL under study. The high word frequency and the wide text coverage of this word list confirm that this word list plays an important role in English for Academic Purpose texts and hence can be a justified resource for material development in the field. From these findings, it can be concluded that the EAPWL created in this study can serve as a guide for material developers and syllabus designers especially in designing course-books, in addition learning these words by learners can help them in better understanding of their texts, and development in their writing and reading comprehension.