Language Acquisition and English Achievement at Grade Four Senior High School

Younesi, Mostafa; Khodadady, Ebrahim; Ghonsooly, Behzad

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ PhD candidate in English education at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

² Academic member of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, International Branch, Mashhad, Iran.

³ Professor in Applied Linguistics, Department of English, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.

Abstract

This study aimed to explore the relationship between language acquisition and grade four senior high school (G4SHS) students’ achievement in English as a foreign language (EFL). To this end the 41-item English Language Acquisition Scale (ELAS) designed by Khodadady and Younesi (2017) was administered to 518 G4SHS students. Also to find the probable relationship between ELAS, its latent variables and participant achievement in EFL classes in EFL classes 126 participants were randomly selected out of population to answer schema-based cloze multiple choice items test ( S- test) designed by Khodadady and Ghergloo ( 2013). To know which of the G4SHS students who took the ELAS took the S-Test as well the researcher was matched the codes of the ELAS S-test and ELTAS carefully. The results showed that the ELAS consists of five factors, i.e., Qualified, grammatization, Humanistic, Engagement and Orientation. Also the ELAS and its underlying factors show significant relationships with English achievement scores. The results of the study are discussed .

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Language Acquisition and English Achievement at Grade Four Senior High School

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Volume 10, Issue 22 - Serial Number 22December 2018Pages 141-156

Volume 10, Issue 22 - Serial Number 22
December 2018
Pages 141-156