ON THE CORRELATION BETWEEN IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS' SELF ESTEEM AND TEST ANXIETY

The current study aimed at investigating any probable relationship between Iranian EFL learners' self-esteem and test anxiety. To do so, 120 male and female Iranian language learners from Islamic Azad university of Miyaneh, Iran were administered two questionnaires: Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and Sarason' Test Anxiety Scale. Having run the correlations analysis, the results revealed that there was a negatively significant correlation between participants' foreign test anxiety and their self-esteem. Conducting studies like the present one may contribute effectively on providing better teaching and learning environment to overcome learners' psychological and affective barriers in EFL situation. Therefore, it is concluded that self-esteem is one of the factors which are responsible for learner' anxiety during examinations but by appropriate training of students in dealing with factors causing test anxiety there can be some improvements.