Investigating the Effects of Iranian EFL Students Self-esteem on Their Oral Performance

ZAHRA MEHRAN POUR¹ MOHAMMAD REZA SALEHI² EBRAHIM ABBAS ZADEH³

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Publication : International Conference On Research Science And Technology(restconf.org)
Abstract :
The present research attempts to investigate how EFL students self- esteem affects their oral performance at the Department of foreign languages branch of English studies at the University of Qom. Furthermore, our study investigates how self-steem can improve students oral performance and participation in the classroom besides the role of the teachers in promoting students to speak and in building their self-steem in order to make them feel more secure. Throughout this research, we hypothesize that the more students of third year English have trust in their abilities, the more they are likely to enhance their oral performance in the foreign language. Besides, the learners performance in speaking can be fostered when teachers reinforce in their students a positive self- image. In order to verify those two hypothesises we have chosen third year students as our sample. To conduct this study, we have used a qualitative (descriptive) research based on two suitable tools: an interview directed to third year teachers of oral expression module at the Department of foreign languages branch of English studies at Qom University besides to a classroom observation conducted with third year classes in oral expression sessions. Based on the results, our two hypothesizes were confirmed. Hence, the findings revealed that EFL students self-steem has a great impact on their oral performance and the teachers positive support is required to boost their self-steem.
Keywords : Key words: hypothesizes Self-esteem confirmed conducted