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This study aims to explore the relationship between the positive psychological capital perceptions that English teachers have and the achievements of the secondary school 8th grade students in foreign language courses they provide foreign language education. In accordance with this goal, the positive psychological capital and perception levels of the English language teachers and the English language courses of the 8th grade students in which the teachers conduct the English language courses were studied at the end of the year. The work group of this study, which is a Nicel study, consists of 95 English teachers who work in 29 different public schools located in the central districts of Adana and 2073 high school 8th-class students who are the students of these teachers. The research data was collected through the positive psychological capital scale applied to teachers, the students' English lesson year-end class score schemes and the teachers' and students' demographic information forms. In the analysis of the data, visual analyses, t-test, correlation, Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis and Spearman Rho correlation analyses were used. According to the research results obtained by analysis with the help of the statistical program; the levels of positive psychological capital perception of teachers are very high, but there is no meaningful relationship between the positive psychological capital levels of teachers and the success of students in English.

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