A Study On The Correlation Between Junior High School Student’s Trait Emotional Intelligence And English Performance

With the rise of positive psychology,the focus of international research began to show a “positive turn” from focusing on defects to positive elements.In recent years,many researchers viewed second language learners with a holistic perspective and began to pay attention to the impact of positive psychology on second language learning.However,this part of the research in China is still in its infancy.The research on positive emotions is relatively less,and most of the research is on negative emotions,such as anxiety and burnout.Simultaneously,most of the existing studies have only discussed the impact of negative emotions on English performance.As for the discussion of positive emotions and negative emotions,existing study has discussed the relationship between trait emotional intelligence(TEI),foreign language enjoyment(FLE),foreign language anxiety(FLA)and foreign language burnout(FLB)of senior high school students and English performance,while few studies have discussed the relationship between TEI,FLE,FLA and FLB of junior high school students and English performance.Based on the existing research,this paper investigated junior high school students’ TEI,FLE,FLA and FLB from positive psychology and surveyed the relationship between TEI and English performance.On this basis,it further explored the mediating role of academic emotions(enjoyment,anxiety and burnout).In this study,184 junior high school students in Hohhot were selected as the subjects.According to the results of questionnaires and English tests,the relationship between TEI,academic emotions and English performance was investigated.It mainly answers the following three questions:(1)What are the levels of trait emotional intelligence,foreign language enjoyment,anxiety and burnout of junior high school students?(2)What is the correlation between trait emotional intelligence,foreign language enjoyment,anxiety and burnout and English performance?(3)Do foreign language enjoyment,anxiety and burnout play multiple mediating roles between trait emotional intelligence and English performance? SPSS 25.0 and AMOS25.0were used to analyze the data.The results show that: 1.Junior high school students’ TEI and enjoyment are on the high side,anxiety is on the medium side,and burnout is on the low side.2.TEI,enjoyment,anxiety,burnout and English performance are correlated.TEI is positively correlated with enjoyment and English performance,while negatively correlated with anxiety and burnout.Enjoyment is positively correlated with TEI and English performance,while negatively correlated with anxiety and burnout.Anxiety is positively correlated with burnout,and negatively correlated with TEI,enjoyment and English performance.Performance is positively correlated with TEI and enjoyment,and negatively correlated with anxiety and burnout.From the correlation analysis,it can be concluded that the higher the TEI and enjoyment,the lower the level of anxiety and burnout,and the higher performance,and vice versa.3.Academic emotions(foreign language enjoyment,anxiety and burnout)play multiple parallel mediating roles between TEI and English performance.The total mediating effect was 0.13,burnout was the strongest(0.07),followed by anxiety(0.04),and enjoyment was the weakest(0.02),accounted for 54%,31%,15% respectively.Based on the research results,the author summarizes the limitations of this study and puts forward some suggestions to improve students’ TEI,so as to promote students’ positive emotions in English learning,and ultimately foster students’ learning enthusiasm and English performance.