نقش هوش هیجانی و انگیزش در یادگیری زبان انگلیسی زبان آموزان ایرانی

abstract the current study examined the role of emotional intelligence and motivation on language learning of efl learners in iranian context. the participants of this study were 162 female and 100 male junior high school students. these participants were selected by convenient sampling method. to carry out the study two questionnaires were administered to the participants. first, the adapted version of ei inventory with 15 subscales developed by bar- on( 1997) and then, attitudes and motivation test battery (amtb) (gardner, tremblay,& masgoret, 1997) with 7 subscales were administered. the result showed there is a negative correlation between problem solving as one of the eq factors and language achievement. furthermore, from among the factors of motivation, attitude towards language learning and desire to learn the language were positively related to language achievement while amotivaion was negatively related. stepwise multiple regression analysis showed that problem solving and happiness in two steps could explain 0.049 of variance in language achievement. while, amotivation could explain 0.035 of variance of that