The Relationship Between Iraqi EFL Learners’ Perfectionism, Self-Regulation, and Language Learning

Abstract

The concept of perfectionism has been associated with a huge number of unfavorable and favorable psychosocial outcomes. Anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and behavior disciplineare some of these unfavorable outcomes (Flett & Hewitt, 2002).Accordingly, the current study was conducted on a population of 150 male and female Iraqi language learners. To do the study, practically, Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS) was distributed among the language learners; then, since the study is correlational design research, the researcher distributed the Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SRQ) in order to collect the learners’ viewpoints about the level of self-regulation.  The findings, indicated that there is a significant and positive relationship between learners' perfectionism and language achievementamong the Iraqi language learners. In addition, positivecorrelation was found between learners' self-regulation and their language achievement. Consequently, the implication of the study demonstrated that those learners with perfectionist ideas in their mind can achieve threshold level of education comparing with those who lack such a mindset. In addition, it was implied that learners can take advantage from learning self-regulated skills by integrating them in their process of learning, which may help them become independent and facilitate the process of self-learning among the learners.