Emotional intelligence (EI) has a lot to do with being aware of your emotions. It refers to the ability to distinguish your emotions and other people's emotions. It is one of the most recently defined types of intelligence in the field of psychology that appeared at the beginning of the 1990s by developing the concept of intelligence. Based on EI people have the mental abilities and emotional skills to solve their problems and influence other people (Pfeiffer, 2001).
Mayer and Salovey (1997) stated that knowing what two components of emotional intelligence help us to understand its concept. Brain was divided into three parts of cognition (though), affect (including emotion), and motivation in the 18th century. Human memory, reasoning, and
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Fortunately, this claim has been proved by many researchers who have done many studies to know the relationship between emotional intelligence and second/foreign language learning in general and its four skills in particular. Being aware of one's and others' emotions can help language learners to cope with emotional obstacles and have positive beliefs about language learning, i.e., emotional intelligence facilitate learners' beliefs about language learning (Ghanadi & Ketabi, 2014; Golemam, 1995). Emotional intelligence is also considered beneficial in learning different skills, particularly productive skills (Pishghadam, 2009; Zarezadeh, 2013), academic and language achievement (Abdolmanafi Rokni et al., 2014; Fahim & Pishghadam, 2007), L2 motivation (Barzegar & Aref Sadr, …show more content…
1). Those learners who use language learning strategies are able to store information and then use that information in an appropriate time when needed. Strategies are conscious and may be changed but are not always observable. Being more self-directed and autonomous in learning is result of using learning strategies (Oxford, 1990). One of these strategies is meta-cognitive strategies.
The term”meta-cognition” possesses a long history. John Flavell was the one who introduced this term to the world in the 1970s and this term entered to the field of cognitive psychology (Mahasneh, 2014). Oxford (1990) stated that meta-cognition means “beyond, beside, or with cognition”(p. 139).
Flavell (1976) defined meta-cognition as “active monitoring and consequent regulation and orchestration of cognitive process to achieve cognitive goals” (p. 252). Learners who are aware of their learning process and use meta-cognitive strategies are able to control on their learning and enhance recollection and retention of information which is stored in their mind(Flavell,