The Relationship between Cultural Intelligence and Persian Language Performance through the Mediation of Language Learning Motivational Systems in Bilingual Students

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the mediating role of the motivational system while learning Persian language dealing with the relationship between cultural intelligence and Persian language performance in Turkman bilingual students. The research method is of correlation type using structural equation modeling and the statistical population of the research was bilingual Turkmen secondary school students, according to the number of observed variables and the coefficient of 12 and including incomplete questionnaires, 206 people were selected as the sample size and answered Ang & Early’s (2004) cultural intelligence questionnaire, Khaleghizadeh et al’s (2019) motivation to learn Persian language questionnaire. Also, the scores of students' Persian language course at the end of the semester were used to measure the variable of Persian language performance. Data analysis was done with structural equation method and SPSS 18 and Amos 23 software. The results showed that there was a positive correlation between cultural intelligence and the motivational system of Persian language learning with Persian language performance in students. According to the standardized values (β), the mediating role of the motivational system of Persian language learning in the relationship between cultural intelligence and Persian language performance was confirmed.