Relationship Between Social Emotional Competence (Sec) And Achievement In English Among Viii Grade Students

Abstract

Social Emotional Competence (SEC) includes successfully managing emotional regulation and engaging positively in social settings. It includes five core competencies given by CASEL such as self-awareness. Self-management, social-awareness, relationship management and responsible decision making. Knowing about one’s social emotional ability in teaching learning process has a significant impact in the attainment of pre-determined instructional objectives. The present study conducted to find out the correlation between Social emotional Competence (SEC) along with its various dimensions with achievement in English among VIII grade students of government coeducational schools located in Amritsar district. For the data collection, a sample of 200 VIII grade students (98 male and 102 female) were taken. The investigator had taken self-constructed Achievement in English and Social Emotional Competence (SEC) for the collection od data. For descriptive statistics, Mean. S.D. Skewness and Kurtosis were calculated and normality of data gad been checked. The inferential statistics was done through Karl Pearson’s Product moment correlation to examined the relationship between the Social Emotional Competence (SEC), its dimensions and Achievement in English and t-test was used to investigate the significant difference between two groups. The findings of the study revealed that Achievement in English was positively correlated with Social Emotional Competence (SEC) and its various dimensions. Further, it was also found that there was no significant difference exists in Achievement in English on the basis of gender.