Investigating Iraqi EFL 4th Grade University Students' Social Intelligence Role in Language Learning and Teaching

Abstract

Social intelligence, as one of the major topics in linguistics and language learning and teaching, is defined as the ability to get along with people in general and this ability is different from one person to another. It plays a central role in contemporary language learning and teaching approaches such as ; communicative language teaching ,  community language learning and many other alike methods .To find out the Iraqi EFL 4^th grade university students' social intelligence role  a questionnaire is prepared and applied on a  sample of 100  university  students  after securing the validity and the reliability of the instrument .The results obtained reveal that Iraqi EFL 4^th grade university students have all the domains of the social intelligence based on the high rate of the mean  scores  of the questionnaire which rates  between (75.7-78.1) .