The effect of emotional intelligence awareness-raising activities on L2 motivation
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2013-03
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Zakład Filologii Angielskiej Wydział Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Kaliszu
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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
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universal motivational strategies, emotional intelligence, L2 motivation
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Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2013, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 67-86