TY - JOUR ID - 10408 TI - What Do Iranian EFL Learners and Teachers Think of Teaching Impoliteness? JO - Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics JA - RALS LA - en SN - 2345-3303 AU - Ahmadi, Alireza AU - Heydari Soureshjani, Kamal AD - Shiraz University, Iran AD - Young Researchers Club Member, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord Branch Y1 - 2011 PY - 2011 VL - 2 IS - 1 SP - 53 EP - 68 KW - Impoliteness KW - Gender KW - Iranian learners KW - Iranian teachers DO - N2 - Every language involves friendly and polite as well as hostile and impolite situationsin which language users have to use the context-appropriate language. However,unlike politeness which has generated a great number of studies, few studies havebeen conducted on impoliteness especially in EFL contexts. The present study aimedto see whether language learners and teachers hold the same idea concerningteaching impoliteness in an Iranian EFL context. One hundred EFL learners and 70EFL teachers were surveyed through a questionnaire. The results indicated that thelanguage learners and teachers differed significantly in their attitudes towards mostof the issues related to impoliteness. However, gender was not a determining factorin this regard, as the only aspect of impoliteness in which gender made a significantdifference was the level of proficiency deemed appropriate for teachingimpoliteness. UR - https://rals.scu.ac.ir/article_10408.html L1 - https://rals.scu.ac.ir/article_10408_5b3c151a05f3ed50df97b522cba911ab.pdf ER -