Parents’ Educational Level and Children’s English Language Proficiency
Journal Title: Language Teaching Research Quarterly - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue
Abstract
The expansion of the English Language utilization, the concept of Lingua Franca, and the English language proficiency’s role in children’s social and vocational future, make children’s learning English a vital affair for parents all around the world. Minding the role of parents’ educational level is an understudied issue in children’s English language proficiency level. To address this unexpected topic, the purpose of this study is finding the relationship between parents’ educational level and children’s English language proficiency. For this study, the researcher gave a TOEFL test (for evaluating the children’s English language proficiency) and a questionnaire (for determining their parents’ educational level) to eighty participants both female and male who are in their twenties and thirties. They were students in Intermediate and Upper Intermediate level in Gatt Language Center (GLC) in Tehran. After collecting the data the researcher considered each participant’s score two times: First regarding to their fathers’ educational level, second regarding to their mothers’ educational level. The researcher ran Independent Sample t-Test for differentiation between children whose parents have university education and children whose parents do not have university education. This study showed that children whose mothers have university education have higher level of English language proficiency. But there is no significant difference of English language proficiency level between children whose fathers have university education and those whose fathers do not have university education. In accordance with this study, unlike fathers’, mothers’ educational level, especially university education, could affect children’s English language proficiency level. So all parents especially mothers who desire to have children with high English language proficiency level, should take the prominence of their own educational level into account.
Authors and Affiliations
Simin Jalili
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP495646
- DOI -
- Views 225
- Downloads 0
Technology in ELT: Iranian EFL Teachers’ Perception towards Using Fotobabble in English Classes
Teaching with technology has gained attention around the globe and internet use has become an integral part of teaching. Web- based tools are used in language classes to enhance interaction among learners and increase le...
A Course Book Evaluation of the American English File Series
The present study investigated the American English File series the new edition from the perspective of English Language teachers. The evaluation was done on the basis of a quick reference checklist prepared by Cunningsw...
Effects of PowerPoint Presentation on Vocabulary Learning among Iranian senior high school EFL learners
This paper investigated the effect of PowerPoint Presentation on Iranian EFL learners Vocabulary in Chaharmahal Va Bakhtiari province. To this end, 100 Iranian high school EFL learners were selected based on their perfor...
“I Sounded An American to a Native Speaker, so Wow”: Saudi Women’s Attitudes and Motivation in Learning English
In second language (L2) learning, a range of complex affective factors come into play such as attitudes towards the L2, L2 speakers and first language (L1) group affiliation (Gardner, 1985; Gatbonton, Trofimovich, & Magi...
On the Relationship between Persian EFL Teacher’s Discourse and Language Learning Anxiety
The present study was an attempt to investigate Persian EFL teacher’s discourse and its relation to learners’ language learning anxiety. It was carried out in a bilingual elementary school and a language institute. The p...