THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EFL LEARNERS' LEVEL OF READING ENGAGEMENT AND THEIR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

This paper investigates the relationships between efl learners' level of reading engagement and their emotional intelligence. To do so, the questionnaire of motivating reading instruction (qmri) was given to 34 participants who were studying english at jahan-e-elm higher education institute and they were asked to fill it. the purpose of giving the qmri questionnaire was to estimate the level of students' reading engagement. To find out the level of students' reading engagement from the teacher's perspective, rei questionnaire was given to the teacher. Next, the emotional intelligence's questionnaire was administered. having figured out the level of reading engagement of participants from both perspectives, the correlation coefficient and regression analysis between qmri and emotional intelligence was done. The results showed that there was a positive correlation between the two variables of the study, showing a significant relationship between the level of reading engagement and emotional intelligence.