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Foreign Language Enjoyment as a Mediator between Informal Digital Learning of English and Willingness to Communicate: A Sample of Hong Kong EFL Secondary Students
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Ju Seong Lee; Nga Man Yeung; Mary Beth Osburn – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Based on Fredrickson's (2001) broaden-and-build theory, this study investigates how Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE; consisting of "teacher appreciation, personal enjoyment," and "social enjoyment") mediates the relationship between Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) and EFL secondary students' willingness to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Informal Digital Learning of English and Perceptions of Using EIL Materials: Attitude toward Varieties of English as a Mediator
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Ju Seong Lee; Jianzhu Chen; Nur Arifah Drajati – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This mixed-methods study aims to examine the mediating role of attitude toward English varieties in the relationship between Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) and perceptions of using English as an International Language (EIL) materials in pre-service English teachers. We collected and analyzed survey data from 434 Indonesian EFL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
Bridging Imagination and Informal Digital Learning of English: A Mixed-Method Investigation
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Guangxiang Liu; Yue Zhang; Rui Zhang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Focusing on how a world of possibilities is opened up by language learners themselves, imagination has been regarded as an elusive but indispensable element in second language (L2) education. Drawing on notions of international posture (Yashima 2002), Ideal L2 Self (Dörnyei 2009), and imagined communities (Norton 2001), we theorised imagination…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept