“…Moreover, due to the significant impact of the locus of control on people's lives and their attitudes to life-events in both educational and non-academic contexts, this notion "as a personality variable has been more important in recent theoretical and applied researches" (Soleimani, Aghayani & Ashari, 2018, p. 14). A number of studies reported the effectiveness of locus of control in EFL context in which it influences EFL learners' test anxiety and test scores (Katirayifar & Rezvani, 2017), affects EFL learners' translation achievement (Irgin & Öz, 2020), influences EFL learners' preference for vocabulary acquisition (Aghayani & Soleimani, 2016), improves EFL learners' reading comprehension (Naseri & Ghabanchi, 2014;Nejabati, 2014), strengthens EFL learners' creativity in writing (Khoshsima & Izadi, 2015), predicts EFL learners' willingness to communicate (Arkavazi & Nosratinia, 2018), enhances EFL learners' language achievement (Amini, 2013), and affects EFL learners' reading and writing achievement (Ghonsooly & Elahi Shirvan, 2011).…”