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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"L2 motivation"”.
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SCHOOL BELONGING AND L2 MOTIVATION OF FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS AT FOUR JAPANESE UNIVERSITIES
… they feel motivated to study a second language, L2 motivation. School belonging, which has rarely been studied in the field of applied linguistics, is widely discussed in educational psychology, and its relationship with academic achievement has been examined. However, the relationship between …
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A Mixed-Methods Study of Femininity, Possible Selves, and L2 Motivation Among Female English Graduates in Zhuhai, China
… of English, amidst narratives of a decline in L2 (second language) motivation in China and greater concerns about unemployment rates post-graduation, with potential negative impacts for women’s progress and equality. Using an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design with both survey (200 …
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Factors impacting on the motivation on Omani students to learn English as an L2.
This study of the motivation to learn English as L2 (as a second/foreign language) provides a local model of L2 motivation which employs a new contextualised perspective. It is based on the socio-cultural backgrounds of the learners and their social relations. This model not only incorporates …
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The motivation of junior high school pupils to learn English in provincial Indonesia
The purpose of this work is to explore the motivation of young Indonesians to learn English over the first two years of formal study in a provincial junior high school. The national education system has always struggled to produce competent users of the language, yet the country's need for such …
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Learner Attitudes Toward Studying English in a Rural Japanese University: Motivation, WTC, and Preferences for Instructional Activities
… a multi-faceted analysis of the English learning motivation of one particular population: first-year non-English-major Japanese university students in a rural area of Japan. In addition to traditional motivation measures, measures of group dynamics thought to be relevant to classroom motivation …
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A Sociocultural Approach to the Study of Motivation and Attitudes towards the Learning of Mandarin Chinese in the U.S.: Secondary School Students' Perceptions
… security establishments of the U.S. affect the motivation and attitudes of non-Asian secondary level school students towards learning Mandarin at the macro level. At the meso level, families, schools, teachers, peers, extracurricular Mandarin programs, the presence of local and overseas Chinese …
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An Investigation of English Learners' Willingness to Communicate in a Linguistically Diverse Setting
… al., 1998; Kang, 2005). Direct factors include L2 anxiety, perceived L2 competence, and L2 motivation (MacIntyre & Charos, 1996; MacIntyre et al., 1998), which account for L2 speakers’ psychological changes determinant of their L2 WTC. Indirect factors, on the other hand, account for all …
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What makes a flourishing language self? A positive psychology perspective on LOTE learners’ language learning motivation
Informed by Dörnyei’s (2009) L2 Motivational Self System and Seligman’s (2011) PERMA model, this PhD research investigates Chinese learners’ motivation to learn a language other than English (LOTE) from a positive psychology perspective (PP). Three overarching research aims were adopted as follows: …
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The effects of affective variables and kanji growth on L1 Chinese JSL learners' kanji learning
… learners of Japanese as a second language (L2) responded to a questionnaire designed to measure eleven affective variables and took kanji tests three times over one academic semester (N = 229-340). In addition, interviews were conducted with 12 participants to further explore the affective …