چکیده:
Purpose: The current study was conducted to discover the possible relationship between self-esteem and the productive skills of EFL learners in Iran across genders. Methodology: The design of the study was ex post facto or correlational design. Three instruments were used for data collection in the present study. A language proficiency test (Oxford Placement Test (OPT)) to measure the participants’ proficiency level, Cooper smith Self-Esteem Inventory and finally two tests of speaking and writing adopted from Preliminary English Test (PET). To begin the study, with the purpose of clearing the language proficiency level of the learners, the researchers gave all learners a language proficiency test in Payame Noor University in Tabriz. After the test, 52 candidates whose test scores were between one SD below and above the mean finally were selected as the homogeneous sample for further data collection. Then some parts of the data were collected by Copper smith's self-esteem questionnaire to find out the participants’ self-esteem. Finally, the last part of the data which was the participants’ productive skills was gathered by two tests of speaking and writing adopted from PET. To test all the research hypotheses in the current study, the researchers run Pearson correlation analysis as the chief statistical analysis. Findings: The results indicated that, there was significant relationship between the self-esteem and productive skills of the learners in both genders. Conclusion: feelings of competence, confidence and good directedness influence learners’ performance. It means that, self-esteem could have a significant impact on the learners’ learning processes.
Purpose: The current study was conducted to discover the possible relationship between self-esteem and the productive skills of EFL learners in Iran across genders. Methodology: The design of the study was ex post facto or correlational design. Three instruments were used for data collection in the present study. A language proficiency test (Oxford Placement Test (OPT)) to measure the participants’ proficiency level, Cooper smith Self-Esteem Inventory and finally two tests of speaking and writing adopted from Preliminary English Test (PET). To begin the study, with the purpose of clearing the language proficiency level of the learners, the researchers gave all learners a language proficiency test in Payame Noor University in Tabriz. After the test, 52 candidates whose test scores were between one SD below and above the mean finally were selected as the homogeneous sample for further data collection. Then some parts of the data were collected by Copper smithchr('39')s self-esteem questionnaire to find out the participants’ self-esteem. Finally the last part of the data which was the participants’ productive skills was gathered by two tests of speaking and writing adopted from PET. To test all the research hypotheses in the current study, the researchers run Pearson correlation analysis as the chief statistical analysis. Findings: The results indicated that, there was significant relationship between the self-esteem and productive skills of the learners in both genders. Conclusion: feelings of competence, confidence and good directedness influence learners’ performance. It means that, self-esteem could have a significant impact on the learners’ learning processes.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Self-esteem, EFL Learners’ Productive Skills, Speaking, Writing, Language Proficiency Abstract Purpose: The current study was conducted to discover the possible relationship between self-esteem and the productive skills of EFL learners in Iran across genders.
Bagheri and Faghih, (2012) research focus on self-esteem and paragraph writing, but they include English language proficiency as their unseen variables in the study.
4. Findings 52 participants who had initially accepted to take part in the research study were given the self-esteem questionnaire and tests of speaking and writing skills from PET.
Before finding the relationships between the self-esteem and each language proficiency skill, through the Pearson correlation coefficient test which is a method of parametric inferential statistics, it was essential to check the normality of the scores distribution.
In order to examine the relationship between self-esteem and the speaking performance of Iranian male EFL learners, Pearson correlation coefficient was run.
In order to examine the relationship between self-esteem and the speaking performance of Iranian female EFL learners, Pearson correlation coefficient was run.
With the intention of assessing the relationship between the self-esteem and writing performance of Iranian male EFL learners, Pearson correlation coefficient test was run.
With the intention of assessing the relationship between the self-esteem and writing performance of Iranian female EFL learners, Pearson correlation coefficient test was run.
5. Conclusion The first and second research questions of the current study concerned with the relationship between Iranian EFL learners’ self-esteem and speaking skill in both genders.