Language Acquisition and English Achievement at Grade Four Senior High School

This study aimed to explore the relationship between language acquisition and grade four senior high school (G۴SHS) students’ achievement in English as a foreign language (EFL). To this end the ۴۱-item English Language Acquisition Scale (ELAS) designed by Khodadady and Younesi (۲۰۱۷) was administered to ۵۱۸ G۴SHS students. Also to find the probable relationship between ELAS, its latent variables and participant achievement in EFL classes in EFL classes ۱۲۶ participants were randomly selected out of population to answer schema-based cloze multiple choice items test ( S- test) designed by Khodadady and Ghergloo ( ۲۰۱۳). To know which of the G۴SHS students who took the ELAS took the S-Test as well the researcher was matched the codes of the ELAS S-test and ELTAS carefully. The results showed that the ELAS consists of five factors, i.e., Qualified, grammatization, Humanistic, Engagement and Orientation. Also the ELAS and its underlying factors show significant relationships with English achievement scores. The results of the study are discussed .

کلیدواژه ها:

language acquisition ، language achievement ، language scale