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Iran Culture And Language Analysis

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1.1. Overview
The main aim of the study is to comparatively analyze how the Iranian male and female students’ attitudes towards language and culture may change under the influence of the English language, and how attitudes shape their cultural identity as modern, educated Iranian individuals. One way to achieve this, is finding out if and how the contact with the English language and the Western culture affects perception of the Iranian culture, and their perception of themselves as individuals as well as members of the Iranian society. In addition, the Iranian students’ attitudes towards the Western culture and the spreading of the English language are found out in order to discover the relations between their attitudes towards the Iranian …show more content…

Also, a few of the university students could speak English as they had been studying in foreign countries thanks to their scholarships and sabbaticals. Also, Iran had good relationship with the USA and the UK which let a lot of English speaking tourists to come and visit Iran.
After the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1978, the country experienced a lot of changes and new needs came into existence. When the Supreme Leader and the founder of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, announced that there is a need to export the findings of the Islamic Revolution and emphasized on the importance of learning foreign languages, it was expected to see foreign language learning in general and EFL learning in particular to be one of Iran’s top priorities. However, the story was not that …show more content…

Research Objectives
The main aim of the study is to comparatively analyze how the Iranian male and female students’ attitudes towards language and culture may change under the influence of the English language, and how attitudes shape their cultural identity as modern, educated Iranian individuals. One way to achieve this, is finding out if and how the contact with the English language and the Western culture affects perception of the Iranian culture, and their perception of themselves as individuals as well as members of the Iranian society. In addition, the Iranian students’ attitudes towards the Western culture and the spreading of the English language are found out in order to discover the relations between their attitudes towards the Iranian and the Western cultures, and how it all affects the shaping of their cultural identity as Iranian people.
1.6. Research Questions
1- Is there any significant difference between male and female Iranian EFL learners regarding shifting identities?
2- Is there any significant difference between the knowledge of male and female Iranian EFL learners regarding the role of identity in foreign language learning?

1.7. Definition of Key

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