The Correlation Between Iraqi EFL University Students' Emotional Coping and Productive Skills Performance

Abstract

Emotional approach coping refers to specific coping strategies elected in response to stressful experiences. They indicate what people generally do, feel, and think when they experience stressful situations to enable them achieve successful self-regulation (Hoyt et al, 2020).

Learning of speaking and writing enjoys a paramount status in any language education ‎classroom. So long as communication in a foreign language is the ultimate goal for learning, the productive skills will continue to be an important ‎component of syllabus content and learning outcomes (Goh& Burns, 2012).

The study aims at finding out at :firstly, Iraqi EFL university students’ level of emotional coping and performance in productive skills. Secondly:  The correlation between emotional coping with performance in productive skills. The current study is a descriptive correlational one. For the academic year  2021-2022, a sample consists 360 third-year college students who are selected randomly from the colleges of education in three universities (Tikrit University, Baghdad University, Wasit University). Two instruments are used to achieve the aims of this study: the emotional coping scale and productive skills test.

The findings reveal that Iraqi EFL college students have a satisfactory level of emotional coping. Furthermore, the findings also reveal that Iraqi EFL college students productive skills performance is at an average level.