Journal of Research in Educational Systems

Abstract Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of emotional creativity in the relationship between multicultural personality traits with English language anxiety in bilingual students
Methods: The statistical population of this research was made up of all bilingual third year of high school students based on the sampling method in structural equations, according to 11 apparent variables in the model and assigning a coefficient of 20, and including incomplete questionnaires, 225 students were selected, and answered to Van der Zee et al.’s Short-form Multicultural Personality questionnaire (2013), Averill’s Emotional Creativity questionnaire (1999), and Horwitz et al.’s Foreign Language Anxiety Scale (1986). Data analysis was performed by structural equation modeling based on multivariate regression and SPSS18 and Amos24 software.
Results: The findings of the analysis showed that multicultural personality traits and emotional creativity have a direct effect on English language anxiety. Also, emotional creativity mediates multicultural personality traits and has an indirect effect on English language anxiety. The research model was also confirmed which shows that 31% of the variance of the English anxiety variable can be explained by research variables at a significant level of 0.05.
Conclusion: According to the research findings and the role of research variables in language learning, and the relationship between language and cultural and cognitive-emotional factors, it is recommended that their importance be emphasized in educational centers and language teaching institutions in order to increase the level of language learning.
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