The Interplay of Emotional Intelligence, EFL Students’ Gender, and their Writing Performance: A Correlational Study of Iranian University Students
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This study was an attempt to examine the relationship between EFL students’ EI, their gender, and writing performance. To this end, 30 female and 27 male English B.A. students, studying at Allameh Tabataba’i University, participated in this study. After checking the homogeneity of the participants through a TOEFL test, Bar-On EQ-i questionnaire (Bar-On, 1997) was administered in order to measure the participants’ emotional intelligence. Besides, their writing performance was measured by their writing course final grades. Three Pearson product moment correlation coefficients and a Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) were run to analyze the relationships and interactions among the variables of emotional intelligence, gender, and writing performance. The findings revealed that there was a positive relationship between the participants’ EI and their writing performance. Furthermore, the female participants had a higher emotional intelligence compared to the male participants. However, no difference was found between the male and female participants’ writing performance. The obtained results of this study have had several implications in the fields of English teaching, language testing, and syllabus design and materials development. چکیده: این تحقیق به منظور بررسی رابطه ی بین هوش هیجانی دانشجویان زبان انگلیسی، جنسیت، و مهارت نگارش آنها انجام شده است. بدین منظور، 30 دانشجوی زن و ٢٧ دانشجوی مرد مقطع کارشناسی ادبیات انگلیسی دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی در این تحقیق شرکت کردند. پس از بررسی تجانس شرکت کنندگان با استفاده از آزمون تافل، پرسشنامه هوش هیجانی بار-آن به منظور اندازه گیری هوش هیجانی شرکت کنندگان استفاده شد. سپس، مهارت نگارش آنها توسط نمرات پایانی واحد درسی نگارش آنان سنجیده شد. به منظور تحلیل روابط و کنش های موجود بین متغیرهای جنسیت، هوش هیجانی، و مهارت نگارش از سه ضریب همبستگی پیرسون و یک مقیاس مستقل منووا (تحلیل چند متغیره واریانس) استفاده شد. نتایج تجزیه تحلیل داده ها نشان دادند که رابطه ی آماری مثبتی بین هوش هیجانی شرکت کنندگان و مهارت نگارش آنها وجود داشت. علاوه بر این، شرکت کنندگانزن نسبت به شرکت کنندگان مرد از هوش هیجانی بالاتری برخوردار بودند. با این وجود، هیچ تفاوتی بین مهارت نگارش شرکت کنندگان زن و مرد وجود نداشته است. نتایج به دست آمده از این تحقیق کاربردهای مختلفی در زمینه های آموزش زبان انگلیسی، آزمون سازی زبان انگلیسی، و برنامه ریزی و تهیه متون آموزشی دارد.کلید واژه ها: پرسشنامه هوش هیجانی بار-آن، دانشجویان زبان انگلیسی به عنوان زبان خارجی، هوش هیجانی، جنسیت، عملکرد نگارش
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volume 5 issue 2
pages 173- 190
publication date 2016-07-01
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