چکیده:
The major aim of the study was to determine the roles of psychological andsociological factors in general and social/cultural capital andcognitive/metacognitive aspects in particular in English language learning. To thisend, 143 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners were asked to take an IQtest, a metacognitive questionnaire along with a social and cultural capital scale.Structure Equation Modeling (SEM) was utilized to analyze the data. The resultsdemonstrated that both psychological and sociological factors contribute to foreignlanguage achievement, however social and cultural capital was found to be moreinfluential in English language learning. In the end, the results were discussed inthe context of English language learning and some suggestions were made.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Iranian Journal of Applied Linguistics (IJAL), Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2013, 129-144 Sociological and Psychological Model of Foreign Language Achievement: Examining Social/Cultural Capital and Cognitive/Metacognitive Aspects Reza Pishghadam a Associate Professor, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran Gholam Hassan Khajavy b Ph. D.
Many studies have been done to explore the role of psychological factors such as intelligence (Ekstrand, 1977; Fahim & Pishghadam, 2007), motivation (Gardner, 1985; Ghapanchi, Khajavy, & Asadpour, 2011; Noels, Pelletier, Clement, & Vallerand, 2000), anxiety (Horwitz, 2001), and metacognition (Chamot & O’Malley, 1994; Oxford, 1989) in L2 learning.
g. Pishghadam & Zabihi, 2011) have examined the role of social- cultural capital and psychological factors separately in foreign language achievement, to our best knowledge, no study has explored the role of these two factors in L2 achievement simultaneously.
Therefore, in this study we are to determine the probable role of psychological (IQ/Metacognition) and sociological (Social/Cultural capital) factors in foreign language achievement.
In other words, language learners who have 138 Sociological and Psychological Model of Foreign Language Achievement… access to a richer social-cultural capital have a higher level of intelligence and metacognition, and will have a better performance in learning another language.
Therefore, based on the results of this study, it is fair to say that the social environment of learners teaches them how to manage, monitor, and plan (Metacognitive abilities), or how to use their analytical thinking (Intelligence) in coping with different problems in life, education, and more specifically foreign language learning."