Investigating social-emotional language learning competences of English language and literature students with regard to demographic factors

The world is becoming increasingly interconnected with trade, culture, technology, tourism and people. This globalization necessitates a common language to communicate effectively. Language studies carry utmost importance in this context. Language learners need to use this common language successfully and effectively. What makes a student successful? Teachers used to evaluate the success by tests and performance. Yet, in the century we live, it is realized that getting A+ from a language test does not show success. The students need to be self-aware and socially aware, get the ability of self-management, make responsible decisions and manage healthy relationships in terms of the target language and the society. The items written are the social-emotional foreign language learning competences for students. The present study indents to investigate the social-emotional foreign language learning competences of English language learners who are enrolled in English Language and Literature Department. This study also aims to reveal if there are statistically meaningful differences in SEFLL competences of the participants in terms of demographic factors. Gender, GPAs, the year of the study and the students' being monolingual or bilingual L2 learners are the demographic factors in this research. To measure SEFLL competences, "Social Emotional Foreign Language Learning Scale", which is developed by Zaimoğlu (2018), was utilized. The study was implemented in Mustafa Kemal University with 173 undergraduate students. The results revealed that gender and GPAs affected some of the SEFLL competences. The participants' being monolingual or bilingual L2 learners and their year of the study did not form a statistically meaningful difference in SEFLL competences.