Seyed Mostafa Hosseini - Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University of Tehran
Masoomeh Hasani - Islamic Azad University - Zanjan Science And Research Branch

According to research, academic self-concept and language performance are mutually interdependent. In the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the languageperformance of students in English as a foreign language. The participants were 320 students studying in 3rd grade ofhigh school in Zanjan province who were chosen using intact sampling method. The data collection instrument foracademic self-concept was Academic Self-Concept Questionnaire (ASCQ) (Liu & Wang, 2005) which consists of 20 items. For obtaining data regarding the students’ Performance, the student’s marks in their final exam of high school in the high school were used. Correlation among variables was measured through Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient, and a Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) was applied to find differences in sub-groups

Academic self-concept, Academic achievement, English, Language Performance, Highschool