بررسي رابطه تحمل ابهام و توانش زباني

Tolerance of Ambiguity and Second Language Proficiency

Present study attempts to find the relationship between tolerance of ambiguity and the studentsʹ language proficiency. To this aim, 135 students were randomly selected among Shahed University students. Subjects took a CELT (A Standard Language Proficiency Test) and filled the MacLainʹs (1993) Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity questionnaire. They were divided into two groups of low and high tolerant of ambiguity. For processing the data, T-Test and multivariate regression were used and the results indicated that there was a significant relationship between studentsʹ English grades in University Entrance Examination as well as their grades of General English course at the university with their tolerance of ambiguity. Moreover, the results from multi variable regression showed that in a linear relation the Entrance exam scores can predict 61% of the variance related to the subjectsʹ English grades. On the other hand, the degree of the tolerance of ambiguity had no significant relations with sex, field of study, Shahed martyrsʹ first degree relatives or non-Shahed attributes in different groups.