Managing Emotions in the Self & Iranian EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Size

Abstract

Emotional intelligence as a general ability is increasingly relevant to organizational development as its principles provide a new way to understand and assess one’s attitude, management styles, personal and interpersonal capabilities. The present research basically aimed at finding out whether managing one’s thought as a subscale of emotional intelligence has any relationship with vocabulary achievement of EFL learners or not. For this purpose, a total number of 45 Iranian EFL learners participated in the study. An achievement pre and posttests of vocabulary along with a questionnaire on emotional intelligence were administered. Then, the relationship between vocabulary gain scores and emotional intelligence, as a total entity, and managing one’s thought, as one of its subcomponents, were obtained through Pearson Product-Moment correlation coefficient formula. The results revealed that there is a positive relationship between emotional intelligence and vocabulary gain, on one hand, and managing one’s thought, on the other hand for Iranian EFL learners. This implies that the more an individual is emotionally intelligent and can manage the self, the more his vocabulary achievement in language classes would be.