The Effect of Emotional Intelligence “EI” on Enhancing English Learning & Promoting Intellectual Growth

Abstract

Emotional Intelligence is one kind of intelligences that promotes purposely educational effectiveness through building and managing relationships and situations, noting that this particular topic deals with psychological and pedagogical domain. We have considered EI to notice its existence or absence at the level of University, moreover to witness its impact on both teacher’s career and young student’s status and performance on their studies, besides we aim to suggest social and emotional learning activities (SEL) to upgrade EI skills. For the sake of genuine and concrete data collection, we disunite our dissertation into three parts. The first theoretical segment was in charge of EI conceptions and values in discrimination with IQ. Next chapter was rendered in terms of qualitative and quantitative methods, as we supplied three instruments for data gathering; questionnaires for first year EFL licence students in terms of interest, social and academic boundaries furthermore student’s motivation, then an interview with L1 oral expression teachers which encompasses their methodology, pedagogy and EI values. Lastly, L1 classroom observation was made at the level of Abdelhamid Ibn Badis University of Mostaganem to perceive the teaching and learning difficulties plus the classroom atmosphere globally speaking. At the last chapter, we concluded that the psychological side of EI do take part in oral expression classes indeed, for this reason; most teachers are successful in their profession moreover admired by their students, as for the pedagogical part, some teachers needed some better instructions for perfect teaching methodology. On these bases, we provided some SEL methods and activities.