The relationship between english instructors’ negotiation strategies and personality traits

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2009

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Gürsel, Gülistan

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This study aimed at investigating the relationship between English instructors’ negotiation strategies to handle conflicts in the FLE classroom and personality traits. Two scales which consist of a demographic inventory, two questionnaires and a semi structured interview were developed by the researcher. The first scale consists of “Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory II (ROCI II)” and “Eyesenck Personality Inventory (EPI). The results of these questionnaires were analyzed by SPSS 15.0. This data gathering instrument was implemented on 120 English instructors working at METU, TOBB ETU, Çankaya University, Atılım University, and Trakya University. Data gathered from 30 English instructors from the same universities were used for the piloting of the study. The data gathered from 120 English instructors in English Preparatory Schools represented the results of the main study. In analyzing the data, descriptive statistics as frequency, percent, average, and standard deviation, and inferential statistics as ANOVA was used. As the second scale of the current study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 English instructors employed at these universities. The results of the interviews were analyzed through content analysis. The results of the study revealed that there is a relationship between English instructors’ use of negotiation strategies and their gender, age, educational background, work experience and the personality traits of introversion-extroversion.

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English., Teaching

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12611184/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18869

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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G. Gürsel, “The relationship between english instructors’ negotiation strategies and personality traits,” M.A. - Master of Arts, Middle East Technical University, 2009.