The effect of emotional intelligence awareness-raising activities on L2 motivation

• Authors: Reza Barzegar , Sajjad Aref Sadr
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article reports a study investigating the effect of emotional intelligence (EI) awareness-raising on Iranian university students’ overall as well as variable-specific L2 motivation. The 136 participants (107 males, 29 females) were divided into a control group and an experimental group, both of which completed the same motivation questionnaire at the beginning and end of the study, with the latter receiving EI awareness-raising in seven sessions over a seven-week period. The results of paired and independent sample t tests showed that EI awareness-raising did not have any statistically significant positive effect on Iranian university students’ overall L2 motivation, but they had a statistically significant positive effect on the Instrumentality- prevention aspect of L2 motivation. The study highlights the importance of becoming familiar with and applying three motivational strategies which may be considered as universal motivational strategies.

Keywords

EN

emotional intelligence; L2 motivation; universal motivational strategies

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 67-86

Dates

cover

2013-03

Contributors

author

Reza Barzegar

• Azad University of Damavand, Iran

author

Sajjad Aref Sadr

• Iran University of Science and Technology

Identifiers

ISSN

2083-5205

DOI

10.14746/ssllt.2013.3.1.4