THE EFFECTS OF TEACHER-PARENT RELATIONSHIPS ON IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS’ LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Various studies focusing on the effectiveness of teacher-parents relationship emphasize the positive effects of parents’ involvement in education. This study aimed to examine the effects of teacher-parents relationship on Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ language proficiency at elementary level. It also aimed to find how this relationship may influence parents’ motivation and attitude with regard to their role in education. In this study a permanent relationship with parents was created through writing weekly letters to them. By these letters parents were informed about absence or presence of their children, quality of doing assignments, children’s behavioral problems, children’s scores in class quizzes, etc. The results showed that permanent teacher-parents relationship can increase students’ language proficiency and parents’ motivation.