The Relationship between Self Esteem (global self-esteem and task self-esteem) and Speaking Skill of Female EFL Learners (original) (raw)

The present study aimed at investigating the relationship between self-esteem (global and task self esteem) and Iranian intermediate female EFL learners‘ oral proficiency. For this purpose, based on an OPT test, 40 intermediate female EFL students were selected among 100 English students in Parsa English Institute in Shahrood. Two raters evaluated the speaking ability of the participants by asking 11 questions chosen from TOEIC book. The raters used TOEIC speaking scale which measures Pronunciation, Intonation, Stress, Grammar, Vocabulary, Cohesion, Relevance of content and Completeness of content. Two questionnaires of self-esteem including global self-esteem (SLCS-R; Tafarodi & Swann, 2001) and a researcher- made task self-esteem questionnaire were also administered to the participants. The results of the two Spearman rank order correlation tests performed to the results of the both questionnaires and speaking test showed significant correlation between these variables. The association between ―self competence‖ and ―speaking score‖ (rho= .677) as well as the association between ―self liking‖ and ―speaking score‖ (rho= .576) were fairly strong (P<.05). The results also showed a significant relationship between the two dimensions of the global self esteem, task self esteem, and different components of the TOEIC test (p≤0.05). Positive correlation was found between task self esteem and speaking proficiency, (rho= .379, p< .05). The results of the two series of Spearman rank order showed that the association between global self esteem and speaking ability was slightly stronger than the association between task self esteem and speaking proficiency. Keywords: Global self-esteem, Self-Liking, Self-Competence, Task self-esteem, Speaking Skill