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- Title
The Effect of Emotional Intelligence and Gender on Writing Proficiency of Iranian EFL Learners.
- Authors
Mohammadi, Zohreh; Izadpanah, Siros
- Abstract
This study examined the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and mental health on writing proficiency of Iranian EFL learners. The data included two groups of males and females in intermediate and advanced level of English language learning from International Center (IT) and Iran Zamin institutes, Zanjan, Iran. The groups were compared based on their emotional intelligence and mental health on writing proficiency. The participants of this study were Iranian EFL learners. Forty out of 60 completely submitted the questionnaire forms and essay writing task, 21 samples of 40 were males from IT institute and 19 samples were females from Iran Zamin institute. They were asked to fill out the personality questionnaire of EI and writing an essay. The writings were scored by the researchers. The collected data were analyzed - using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and independent T-Test. Overall, the statistical analysis indicated that there was no meaningful relationship between emotional intelligence and writing proficiency between the two groups of men and women. The findings of this study can lead EFL teachers and practitioners to understand the weak and strong points of each individual and, accordingly, make up for the weakness and meet the needs of different individual learners.
- Subjects
EMOTIONAL intelligence; MENTAL health; ENGLISH as a foreign language; GENDER differences (Psychology); WRITING
- Publication
Journal of Language Teaching & Research, 2018, Vol 9, Issue 1, p164
- ISSN
1798-4769
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17507/jltr.0901.21