parviz alavinia - Assiszam Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Letters, Urmia University
Hassan Mollahossein - MA, Urmia University

The current study was after probing the vvould—be correlation betweenemotional intelligence (and its subcomponents), on the one hand, andmetacognitive listening strategies used by academic EFL learners, on theother. Benefiting from 72 female and 40 male university students fromUrmia University, Urmia Azad University and Salams Azad University, thecurrent study also strived to find the possible effect of gender on the gainedresults. The main instruments used in the study were Bar~On’s emotionalquotient inventory and metacognitive listening strategy use questionnaire.Using Pearson correlation coefficient, the researchers came up with asignificant amount of correlation between the use of rnetacognitive listeningstrategies and total emotional intelligence score as well as the learners’ scores on the subscales of emotional intelligence (Intrapersonal,Interpersonal, adaptability, and general mood) with the mere exception ofstress management. Moreover, the relationship between all the 5 subscalesof emotional intelligence and the use of monitoring strategies, and therelationship between interpersonal skills and evaluating strategy were foundto be significant. Finally, based on the obtained results, gender was reportedto have no effect on the relationship between emotional intelligence and useof metacognitive strategies in listening.

Bar-On s Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ~i), emotional intelligence, emotional quotient, rnetacognitive listening strategies, Iranian academic EFL learners