چکیده:
Among the major milestones in the history of psychological attempts and
psycholinguistic investigations lies the inception and outbreak of the contentious
field of emotional intelligence in the mid 1990s. Although subsequent to its advent
a profusion of diverse probes from several neighboring disciplines have been
devoted to disentangling the true nature of this rather avant-garde doctrine, some
aspects of EQ still seem to have been given scant attention in L2 learning research.
One such partially neglected facet is thought to be the investigation of the role of
intervention studies in enhancing EFL learners’ emotional intelligence. Thus, the
present study aims to somehow bridge this ostensible gap in the literature on the
issue by resorting to two innovative techniques of fuzzy thinking and SAFE (Sign-
Assisted Feeling Expression). The results gained point to significant leaps in EFL
learners’ level of emotional intelligence with regard to some particular subscales of
Bar-On's EQ-i which are attributable to the effect of treatment on participants.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Thus, the way the researchers have adopted to approach the problem seems to be purely different in nature from other attempts made thus far, in that a seminal part of the current study draws on the maxims of the widely- celebrated doctrine of fuzzy thinking and strives to bring this revolutionary philosophical concept into terms with emotional intelligence, hence struggling to somehow eradicate the history-long discrimination between emotions and reason.
Therefore, the present study might be considered as an attempt to move in line with two overriding philosophically-founded schools of thought, namely fuzzy thinking and a brand new element of semiotics introduced here as SAFE (Sign- Assisted Feeling Expression), formerly and originally devised by the researchers as SALL (Sign-Assisted Language Learning) and intended as an innovative method to enhance language learning (A brief account will be given in this paper regarding the implications of fuzzy thinking and the researchers' coined terminology).
Further analysis through custom hypothesis tests (the results of which are summarized in Table 2 below) provides us with clear evidence in favor of the first experimental group (SAFE) in terms of a heightened performance by its members on the subtest of emotional self-awareness, and points to the effectiveness of the treatment applied to the subjects of this group.
Gains in the Fuzzy Group The treatment applied to the other experimental group through the fuzzy method also proved effective in terms of improving the subjects' emotional intelligence in several respects, though these enhancements were not found to overlap with the areas in which gains had been observed with respect to the SAFE group."