Scientific-educational and Economic Opportunities of Effective English Teaching

The aim of this study was to examine English professors and Ph.D. students' opinions on the scientific -educational and economic opportunities of effective English teaching to Persian learners. This descriptive survey was done at Isfahan University between 2011 and 2012 years and data were collected by a questionnaire with five point Likert scale. The validity of the questionnaire was approved by five English language and education experts and the reliability was calculated by Cronbach's alpha formula (0/95). The data were analyzed through SPSS software using one sample T-test, two independent T- test and the Friedman test.
This study revealed that both English professors and Ph.D. students considered 11 items including " Having an access to primary and scholarly sources"; "Conducting research with foreign counterparts"; " Being more successful in tests of international institutions"; and… as scientific-educational opportunities of effective English teaching in Iran, English professors regarded 10 items like " Development of tourism "; " Providing good- paying jobs for youth " and " Reducing costs of translating and interpreting" as the economic opportunities of effective English teaching in Iran and Ph.D. students considered 11 items such as " Reducing costs of translating and Interpreting", "Development of tourism" and "Industrial and economic development of the country" as the economic opportunities of effective English teaching in Iran. There wasn't a significant difference between English professors and Ph.D. students' opinions on the scientific-educational opportunities (P=0/43) and economic opportunities (P=0/53) of effective English teaching in Iran.
It is concluded that effective English teaching is necessary in Iran and by designing effective English teaching models such as effective communicative English teaching model which is the result of integrating CLT approach and dynamic effective teaching model can provide conditions of achieving the scientific-educational and economic opportunities expressed by English professors and Ph.D. students.