Khojandi, Hoori

An Examination of the Relationship among Teacher-Student Interaction, Willingness to Communicate, Anti-Ought to Self, Socio-economic Status, and Language Achievement among Iranian EFL Learners

AbstractThis research was an attempt to investigate the relationship among teacher studentinteraction TSIn student s socio economic status SES willingness tocommunicate WTC anti ought to self AO and language achievement LA Tofulfill the research objectives a quantitative approach was employed Theparticipants of the current study were 1076 undergraduate students male andfemale randomly selected from among students of different majors in IsfahanUniversity of Technology Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and Universityof Isfahan To collect the data the participants were asked to complete aquestionnaire which was a combination of the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction QTI WTC questionnaire MacIntyre Baker Clement Conord 2001 andAnti Ought to self questionnaire Liu Thompson 2018 as well as students socio economic status information Also a Language Achievement Test was used toassess the participants success or failure in language achievement For dataanalysis SEM and AMOS statistical techniques were used Utilizing SEM twomultiple group structural equation models once with considering students testscores and once without taking into consideration test scores were conducted Thengoodness of fit indices was checked in six steps by applying Maximum Likelihood ML and Bootstrap methods In general the results of the study are as follows TSIn was directly and indirectly related to WTC the relationship between TSIn andAO was accepted there was a significant relationship between AO and WTC Withregards to the relationships between SES and other variables only the direct andpositive relationship between SES and WTC as well as SES and LA wereconfirmed The findings pertaining to the relations of SES TSIn WTC and AOwith LA indicated that all variables except TSIn were related to the students success in LA However the relationship between AO and LA was negative that is if AO increases LA will decreased which was contrary to the results of theprevious studies At the end the suggestions for the future research studies werepresented and some pedagogical implications were discussed Keywords Teacher student interaction Willingness to communicate Anti ought toself Socio economic status Language achievement vi