The Exploration of the Associations between Locus of Control and High School Students’ Language Achievement

Abbas Eslami-Rasekh, Omid Rezaei, Sajad Davoudi

Abstract


The purpose of the study is to determine the relationships between locus of control (LOC) orientation and high school students’ language achievement. The popular categorization of internals and externals was taken into account. The participants of this study were 121 high school students in the second, third and pre-university grades in two public high schools of Isfahan, Iran. One of the instruments used in the study was an adopted version of Julian Rotters’ locus of control (1966) which identified internal and external orientations. The participants’ English scores were regarded as the measure of their achievement. Besides, a questionnaire consisting of 29 items was administered to all 121 students. Responses were put into one way and two-way ANOVA, the regression analysis, the independent t-test, chi-square and linear regression analysis to compare the means of two sets of scores. The findings of this study show a significant relationship between locus control and achievement of high school students. The findings can be used by EFL teachers and syllabus designers.

 


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locus of control; high school students; language achievement; internals; externals

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7575/ijalel.v.1n.2p.35

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