The Role of Parental Income in English Language Learning Proficiency and Anxiety

Abstract

Socioeconomic factors not only constraints to the economic status only but the other social factors play an equally important role in language learning. The factors are directly proportional to language learning anxiety as the SLL anxiety increased with the higher influence of the social factors. The role of parents ‘income is the most crucial factor in the process of learning English language as the learners spend most of their time with their parents since childhood. Numerous studies have been conducted on the positive role of the parents resulting in improving the performance of the learners. In this study, the prime focus is to investigate the impact of Parents’ income on English Language learning proficiency of the students keeping in view the various dynamics of the society and the importance of the English language provided to the English language in the society. It is a quantitative research based study and the data is collected from various institutes in order to get reliable results. This research will open new horizons including the research on various areas of the Pakistan to understand the impact of the income of the parents on Language Learning proficiency of the learners, the understanding of the government to take sufficient steps to increase the income of the parents to enhance the learning capacity of the learners.