What Do Iranian EFL Learners and Teachers Think of Teaching Impoliteness?

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 ۷۰EFL 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.

Keywords:

Impoliteness , Gender , Iranian learners , Iranian teachers