An Investigation of the Relation between Self-esteem, Indirect Strategy Use and Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners' Oral Language Proficiency

Ahour, Touran; Hassanzadeh, Zahra

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“…A s i t c a n b e s e e n i n t able (2), the mean score of self-esteem among Yemeni EFL students is (119.78). Dividing the mean (119.78) by the total number of the items (41), we get (2.90) which ranges high on the likerttype scale (1)(2)(3)(4). The 4-point scale was deemed appropriate for use in the questionnaire based on the ranking scale in the present study.…”

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Self-esteem and its Relationship to English Oral Performance among Yemeni EFL Undergraduate Learners

Al-Ariqi

Sharyan

2022

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The present study aims to explore the level of self-esteem among the Yemeni EFL university students and find out whether female and male significantly vary in their self-esteem. It also examines the level of the Yemeni Arabic speaking EFL university students in English oral performance and its relationship with their self-esteem. For the data collection, three instruments have been used. First, 50 Yemeni EFL undergraduate students (female=38; male=12) completed the self-esteem scale (SES) developed by the researcher along with the standardized Self-esteem Scale by Rosenberg(1965). Then, an oral test was set to test students' performance in English speaking skill. The third tool is a spoken test checklist prepared to score the students’ oral performance. The data collected were statistically processed by using SPSS. The results obtained show that: (a) Yemeni EFL undergraduate learners show high self-esteem degree (M=2.90 (out of 5), percentage73%) in both dimensions (c) No significant differences have been found between females’ and males’ self-esteem, (d) There is a very slight difference between female and male towards their own perception towards themselves, but it is not significant, (e) The level of Yemeni EFL undergraduate learners in speaking skill is a bit low (M= 9.94 (out of 20); SD=2.4; percentage 49.4%), (f) There is a significant relationship between self-esteem and spoken performance by Yemeni EFL learners (r=.365, p-value=.009<0.01). As a whole, this study contributed to the ESL/EFL by providing information on Yemeni Arabic speaking undergraduate female and male EFL learners in terms of their self-esteem and their oral communication performance.

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Self-esteem and its Relationship to English Oral Performance among Yemeni EFL Undergraduate Learners

Al-Ariqi

Sharyan

2022

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“…Researchers have pointed to the relationship between and the effects of a number of these psychological constructs and the level of S/FL oral proficiency. To put it more clearly, studies have been done on the effects of or the relationship between English oral proficiency and self-confidence (Gurler, 2015;Juhana, 2012), learners' attitudes toward English (Norton & Toohey, 2001;Zeinivand, Azizifar, & Gowhary, 2015), self-esteem (Ahour & Hassanzadeh, 2015;Devi & Qiqiehi, 2016;Koosha, Ketabi, & Kassaian, 2011), anxiety (Mai, 2011;Woodrow, 2006), motivation (Ihsan, 2016;Juhana, 2012), shyness (Al Nakhalah, 2016;Ostovar, Safaee, & Sobhanifar, 2015), fear of making mistakes (Sato, 2003), personality types, introversion /extroversion (Mai, 2011;Meihua, 2012), and self-efficacy (Khatib & Maarof, 2015;Liu, 2013).…”

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Self-Image Improvement and Iranian EFL Learners’ Oral Performance: Effects on Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency

Alimorad

Yazdani

2020

JLE

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The present study intended to investigate the effects of self-image improvement on quality of Iranian EFL learners’ oral productions. To this aim, 30 lower-intermediate university students were randomly divided into an experimental (EG) and control (CG) groups. The main focus in both groups was enhancing the students’ oral performance while only the EG received the treatment via self-image improving techniques. Their self-image was measured with the aid of Offer Self-Image Questionnaire and their oral performance was examined using two parallel IELTS speaking tests before and after the treatment. It was found that by receiving self-image training, participants’ self-image improved, which led to a parallel improvement in their speaking skill. More specifically, the EG improved significantly in oral complexity and two components of oral fluency, MLR and speech rate A. However, regarding oral accuracy and speech rate B, no significant difference was observed between the two groups.

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“…Furthermore, Rubio (2007) stated that students with low self-esteem usually feel deeply insecure, lack the initiative to take risks to acquire communicative competence in the target language; and consequently, may even withdraw out of the language course. Moreover, Ahour and Hassanzadeh (2015) assumed that when a person has low self-esteem, it brings lack of self-confidence, concern, social distance, and other negative circumstances.…”

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Self-esteem of Saudi Learners and Its Relationship to Their Achievement in English as a Foreign Language

Alrabai

2017

ELR

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This study examined the concept of language self-esteem among 263 Saudi learners of English as a foreign Language (EFL) and its association with their achievement in this language. The study utilized a questionnaire survey for data collection and descriptive statistical analyses (e.g. mean, standard deviation, correlations) and a t-test for data analysis. The findings of the study revealed a strong positive correlation (r = 0.414) between learners' self-esteem and their EFL achievement. In addition, participating learners demonstrated low levels of self-esteem (M = 2.94 (out of 5), SD = .44); and low language achievement (M = 62.80 (out of 100), SD = 12.75). There were also no significant differences between male and female learners in terms of both their self-esteem and EFL achievement. The findings derived from this study acknowledge the vital need for all the partners of EFL teaching/learning process in Saudi Arabia to find practical solutions to build and promote Saudi EFL learners' self-esteem for learning the English language. Based on these findings, some suggestions on how to put learner's self-esteem into practice in order to ensure optimal EFL learning outcomes as well as other points for possible future self-esteem research are presented in the concluding section of this paper.

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An Investigation of the Relation between Self-esteem, Indirect Strategy Use and Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners' Oral Language Proficiency

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Self-esteem and its Relationship to English Oral Performance among Yemeni EFL Undergraduate Learners

Self-esteem and its Relationship to English Oral Performance among Yemeni EFL Undergraduate Learners

Self-Image Improvement and Iranian EFL Learners’ Oral Performance: Effects on Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency

Self-esteem of Saudi Learners and Its Relationship to Their Achievement in English as a Foreign Language

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