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THE CORRELATION BETWEEN IRAQI EFL COLLEGE STUDENTS ENGAGEMENT AND THEIR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Asst. Prof.Khansaa Hassan Al-Bahadli

Volume: 10 Issue: 2 2020

Abstract:

Teachers must provide opportunities for students to be actively engaged with the subject matter. To do so, teachers must use certain strategies to capture students’ engagement at various levels like cognitive, affective, and behavioral engagement from beginning to end of the lesson. The present study aims to determine thecorrelation between students’ engagement ( cognitive, affective , and behavioral engagement) and their academic achievementalong with gender variable if any.The researcher used college students’engagement checklist to measure theirengagement. To achieve the aims, a sample of forty students from the second stage, Department of English, College of Imam Al-Kadhim is included in the study. Pearson correlation formula has been used to identify the seven aims of the study. The results indicate that there is statistically positive correlation at α≤0.05 level of significance between students’ cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions and their academic achievement. In the light of the results obtained some valuable recommendations concerning the students are put forward.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v10i02.021

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