چکیده

Spiritual intelligence is the ability to create meaning based on a deep comprehension of existential tenets, the ability to access higher meanings, values, and unconscious aspects of the self and to use multiple levels of consciousness in problem solving. Despite the growing interest among scholars to study the development of this construct and find its cause on one’s life, few has been done in educational setting and it is quite under investigated in the foreign language context. This study aims to apply spiritual intelligence in an EFL setting. The sample includes 39 intermediate EFL learners, with the age range of 17-21 years old, who were divided in the experimental (18) and control (21) groups. Subjects of the experimental group underwent mediation sessions in 7 weeks but the control group received the normal procedures of the institute and both groups completed King’s (2008) spiritual intelligence inventory. The data related to willingness to communicate (WTC) were collected through videotaping English lessons and stimulated recall interviews. Findings point to the positive effects of mediation on the increase in spiritual intelligence from pre-test to posttest and compared to the control group, the experimental group had higher grades in WTC. Considering the results of this attempt, we can apply spiritual intelligence to enhance learners’ willingness to communicate and improve learners’ motivation and achievement in EFL oral performance

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spiritual intelligence, EFL learning, motivation, willingness to communicate

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Parisa Abdolrezapour , 1398 , Applying Spiritual Intelligence to Enhance EFL Learners’ Willingness to Communicate , اولين کنفرانس بين المللي مطالعات زبان انگليسي