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<p style="text-align:justify;">This study aimed to&nbsp;explore the relationship between English language instructors’ conceptions of&nbsp;research holding different academic degrees. To this end, from the population&nbsp;of teachers teaching in different EFL contexts both at Islamic Azad and state universities&nbsp;in Mazandaran province, Iran, a sample of fifty teachers were selected based on&nbsp;a purposive sampling method comprising 20 B.A., 20 M.A., and 10 PhD instructors&nbsp;respectively. To measure the targeted groups' attitude concerning the necessity&nbsp;of research for EFL instructors teaching in various academic settings, Borg's&nbsp;(2009) questionnaire was utilized. The prompts on the questionnaire represented&nbsp;different scenarios such as types of research, characteristics of high-quality&nbsp;research, teachers’ opinions about necessity of research in academic environments, the need for teachers' engagement in reading related research studies and their commitment to conducting research, as well as their research&nbsp;profile over the last five years. The analysis and interpretation of the obtained data revealed that there was a significant difference among the samples under investigation in regard with their attitudes about the&nbsp;pre-specified scenarios addressed by the questionnaire. The results indicated that the EFL instructors' type of academic degree and their views about the&nbsp;need for teachers to have their hands on research were highly correlated and&nbsp;statistically significant. Notably, the findings transpired that there was a&nbsp;great need for raising EFL instructors' awareness and knowledge of research in&nbsp;foreign language teaching because the teaching self can turn into a meaningful&nbsp;process through teachers' direct involvement in research.</p>

Exploring the Interplay between Iranian EFL Teachers’ Perceptions of Research and their Academic Degrees

Original Research 

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