Identification of leadership quality among ESL learners : a survey on private and government colleges of graduate level students in Khartoum state

الملخص EN

Leadership plays an important role in learning English as a second language at the graduate level.

This research was conducted to identify the leadership quality of private and government colleges’ graduate-level students in Khartoum State.

The purpose of the study was to identify the components of leadership quality and to analyze the role of a learner as an academic leader and an English language learner.

Sample of 100 ELT teachers was taken for this research in which 50 teachers were from private colleges and 50 from government colleges.

This descriptive study based on survey method was adopted for data collection in which questionnaire was used as a research tool.

Through questionnaire teachers opinion was collected and analyzed by using the statistical package of social science (SPSS) version 17.0.

Findings revealed that 28.3% of the govt.

teachers agreed with the statement that leadership quality is present in every ESL learner as compared to private teachers.

33.4 % of the govt.

teachers agreed with the statement that leader can motivate the learners for learning English as a second language as compared to private teachers.

33 % of the govt.

teachers agreed with the statement that leader can manage language learning activities like group discussion, dialogue, role-play dramatization and oral presentation as compared to private teachers.32 % of the govt.

teachers agreed with the statement that leaders have the ability to solve the issues related to their ESL learning as compared to private teachers.

This difference of opinion is shown statistically highly significant