Parental Education and Social and Cultural Capital in Academic Achievement  

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Pishghadam, Reza ; Zabihi, Reza

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of English Linguistics vol. 1 no. 2 (Sep. 2011), page 50-57.
Topik: Academic achievement; Parental education; University GPA; Social and cultural capital; Foreign language context
Fulltext: Reza Pishghadam (Corresponding author).pdf (184.65KB)

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administering the Social and Cultural Capital Questionnaire (SCCQ) to 320 undergraduate students majoring in English language, and correlating the respective subscales with the learners’ university GPA. All five factors of SCCQ were found to be correlated significantly with the learners’ GPA. Moreover, having conducted the regression analysis, the researchers found out that literacy and cultural competence were predictive of higher GPA. The researchers then entered parents’ educational levels into the regression model. The results of this analysis indicated that, together with literacy, mother’s educational level predicted 23% of the variances in learners’ GPA. However, father’s educational level was not a good predictor of academic achievement. The implications of the results were discussed within a foreign language context and suggestions were made for future research.

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