![]() ![]() Knowing the way of expressing and stating a sound or word is very important in English because to mispronounce a word may change the meaning of the word. Pronunciation as one of the important skills plays a key role in EFL classes. Moreover, the results of chi-square test showed a significant relationship between the extroverted and introverted teachers in the use of pronunciation techniques and that the extroverted teachers significantly used more of the mentioned techniques than the introvert teachers. The results of descriptive analysis indicated that from among 19 pronunciation teaching techniques, listen and imitate and reading aloud and recitation were the most frequent ones used by both introverted and extroverted teachers. The collected data were analyzed through SPSS software. ![]() Then, a checklist was used to elicit their mostly favored techniques of teaching pronunciation. Based on the results of Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) questionnaire, they were classified into introvert and extrovert groups. To this end, following an online survey a cohort of 60 teachers out of 200 participated in this study. The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to identify the most frequent techniques of teaching pronunciation used by Iranian EFL teachers and, (b) to find out any relationship between teacher's extroversion/introversion personality type and their techniques of teaching pronunciation.
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