مركز التحكم وعلاقته في أداء المهارات الإنتاجية لدى طلبة الجامعة العراقيين دارسي اللغة الإنجليزية لغة أجنبية
This study aims at finding out Iraqi EFL students' level of performance in language productive skills, and their locus of control orientation. It also seeks to find out the correlation between these two variables, and to find out the extent of contribution of EFL university students' locus of control in explaining the variation in students' performance in language productive skills. The instruments of the study, which consist of a LOC questionnaire, a speaking test and a writing test, are administered to (370) participants who are randomly selected from three departments of English in the Universities of Baghdad, Babel and Diyala. The statistical manipulation of the data collected indicates that the study sample has a good level of productive skills, and most of the students have an internal locus of control. The relationship between the locus of control (internal, hesitant, external) and the productive skills are statistically significant, but with varying degrees. Finally, the effect of the locus of control in explaining the variation in the productive skills is statistically significant. (Published abstract)