sharareh khademi

The relationship among socioeconomic status, willingness to communicate, international posture, competitiveness, and language achievement among Iranian EFL learners

Abstract The goal of this research was to study the relationship among willingness tocommunicate WTC international posture IP and competitiveness COM and tosee if socio economic status SES as a sociological factor has any effect on thesefactors and their relations As another aim of the present study the relationship amongthese factors and language learners achievement was investigated as well To thisend a quantitative approach was utilized to study university students responses to aquestionnaire The participants of the study were 1084 university students selectedrandomly from different majors studying at Isfahan University of Technology Isfahan University of medical Sciences and University of Isfahan To collect data aquestionnaire was developed measuring SES IP COM and WTC of participants Inorder to analyze the data inferential statistics were reported and utilizing AMOS Structural Equation Modelling was conducted Two models were conducted the firstmodel didn t consider participants test score and Language Achievement LA butthe second one considered the test scores According to the results SES was approvedto have impact on WTC IP and COM and on the relation which exists among them IP had direct impact on COM and WTC but the impact of COM on WTC wasrejected According to the second model of the study LA was affected by learners SES and their level of WTC but learners COM and IP had no direct impact on theirLA Keywords socioeconomic status willingness to communicate internationalposture competitiveness language achievement VI