The role of anxiety in using learning strategies of Persian as a second language In regard to the mediating role of cognitive intelligence

The present research is aimed to examine the role of anxiety in using learning strategies of Persian as a second languagein regard to the mediating role of cognitive intelligence.The study corpus includes 80 non-Iranian Persian learners of Imam Khomeini International University who have participated by filled out the 3 research questionnaires including Motivational strategies for learning questioner, anxiety and Cognitive Intelligence tests.The data analysis illustrates the role of anxiety in learning strategies, in both with and without its mediating role of cognitive intelligence operation.This role acts in such a way that by increasing the extent of anxiety, the level of strategy learning will be reduced. Increase in anxiety also results in the reduction of the cognitive intelligence of operation; i.e. anxiety reveals a meaningful inverse relation with the cognitive intelligence. The more increasing anxiety is associated to the more decrease in personal efficiency in the cognitive intelligence. Moreover the conclusions revealed that cognitive intelligence operation have a direct effect on application level of learning strategy in such a manner that by increasing in cognitive intelligence operation, the extent of the learning strategy application will be expanded. The results of this conclusion pointed out that not only learning strategy is under the effect of personal intelligence components but also the other psychological component such as anxiety could act as a destructive role even more than the cognitive intelligence at the level of application of these strategies.