A Closer Look at the Relationship between Academic Achievement and Language Proficiency among Iranian EFL Students

Abstract

This study intended to find out the relationship between Iranian college students' language proficiency and their academic achievement. To achieve this goal, 151 female and male college students majoring in English Literature at Shiraz University participated in the study. The analysis of the data obtained from the sample revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between language proficiency and academic achievement. Moreover, the results of the independent t-test indicated that male and female participants did not differ significantly with regard to their language proficiency and academic achievement. In addition, one-way ANOVA which was run to determine the impact of academic level on each of the variables understudy revealed that seniors outperformed the other levels on their language proficiency. Besides, the findings indicated that juniors significantly differ from the other three groups in terms of their academic achievement.