An investigation into the relationship between emotional intelligence skills and foreign language anxiety of students at a private university

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Ergün, Ekin

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This study aims to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence skills and foreign language anxiety levels of students from Atılım University Preparatory School, in addition to looking at Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) and Emotional Intelligence (EI) in relation to gender, high-school background, foreign language background and the level of exposure to English. In the data gathering process, 436 students from a private university preparatory school participated. The data were collected in three steps. At first, the participants were given a demographic inventory in order to get some personal information for the research questions. Then, they were asked to complete the Turkish translation of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale. Lastly, they were given the Turkish adaptation of Bar-On’s Emotional Intelligence Quotient Inventory. The data were analyzed by the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. To find out the differences between the male and female; foreign language backgrounds; high school types, anxiety levels and level of exposure to Englishrelated tests were used. The results revealed that for students’ foreign language anxiety levels, there are significant differences in terms of gender, foreign language background and emotional intelligence skills. For students’ emotional intelligence skills, significant differences were found in terms of gender and high school backgrounds.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/20964

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E. Ergün, “An investigation into the relationship between emotional intelligence skills and foreign language anxiety of students at a private university,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2011.