Abstract
Language proficiency is the ultimate goal of English as a Foreign Language studies. The present study attempted to explore any significant relationships between perfectionism and its dimensions as a whole and language proficiency of students of Kerman institutes. A number of 98 participants studying English at intermediate, upper-intermediate, and advanced levels as a foreign language at Kerman institutes took part in this study. To obtain the required data, the following instruments were administered: Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Frost &Marten, 1990) to measure participants’ level of perfectionism and its dimensions and the short version of Michigan Test (Briggs, Dobson, Rohlick, Spann, & Strom, 1997) to measure the participants’ level of language proficiency. The SPSS results depicted that there was a significant positive relationship between the construct perfectionism and language proficiency.
Highlights
Nowadays, a great number of people step into the seemingly unpaved road of learning a new language, which will connect them to the outer world and to different countries, people, and their cultures
The results revealed that there was a significant positive relationship between the construct Perfectionism and Language Proficiency (LP)
This study attempted to find any relationships between perfectionism and Language Proficiency
Summary
A great number of people step into the seemingly unpaved road of learning a new language, which will connect them to the outer world and to different countries, people, and their cultures. Research has shown that language seekers should not be looked at just but modularly with several variables involved. Not all language seekers will proficiently succeed in their quest. Foreign language learners send up with different de-. According to Larsen-Freeman (1991), various personality traits have been believed to facilitate or inhibit L2 learning. Among these personality traits which may be influencing the degree of L2 learners’ final success is perfectionism which can be implored. Perfectionism may have a positive, negative, or no relationship with language proficiency of the learners which is the aim of this research to determine
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