Naeime Bagheri, Dr. Mitra Zeraatpishe & Dr. Purya Baghaei
Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
The goal of the present research is to study the Comparison between bilinguals’ and monolinguals’ emotional intelligence of teachers. The research community is teachers who work in English Institutes of Mashhad city as bilingual and teachers who work in governmental school as monolingual. The statistical sample includes 144 teachers who were selected based on convenient sampling procedure and data was gathered by using the emotional intelligence questionnaire of Bar-On (2004). The data were analyzed by One-way analysis of variance. The results show significant difference in emotional intelligence between two groups of monolingual and bilingual teachers (P<.05). The result also showed the higher level of interpersonal and adaptability by the bilingual group that might be related to the learning second language in this group. The results of the present study confirm that the bilingual teachers were superior in emotional intelligences than monolingual teachers. The implications of the findings and directions for future empirical research are discussed briefly.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 1-2 February 2018, Ahwaz.
