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Davari, Hossein; Karami, Hossein; Nourzadeh, Saeed; Iranmehr, Abutaleb – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study was set to prepare and validate the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire-Foreign Language Class (AEQ-FLC) for use in the context of English as a foreign language (EFL). The AEQ is largely used and validated with different cohorts of students in different domains. However, despite its need for valid measurement instruments to serve the…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Psychological Patterns, Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning
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Athip Thumvichit – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The effects of positive emotions on learners' achievement and well-being highlight the need to delve into foreign language enjoyment (FLE) in different contexts and from different perspectives. This study uses Q methodology to explore English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' subjective perspectives regarding FLE during a period of online…
Descriptors: Q Methodology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Personal Autonomy
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Miroslaw Pawlak; Nourollah Zarrinabadi; Mariusz Kruk – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Relatively few studies in the field of second language acquisition have undertaken to investigate the interrelationships of constellations of individual difference variables. This is certainly true of how complexes of ID factors impact motivation to learn an additional language. In order to address this gap, the paper reports a study that examined…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Learning Motivation
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Lawrence Jun Zhang; Abdulbaset Saeedian; Jalil Fathi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Given much importance associated with willingness to communicate (WTC) in foreign language learning, many researchers have carried out studies to explore antecedents of second language (L2) WTC. To contribute to this research domain, this study sought to test a model of ideal L2 self, growth language mindset, boredom and WTC among English major…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Learner Engagement
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Seyed Ehsan Mousavian Rad; Ali Roohani; Azizullah Mirzaei – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Given the significance of boredom and its detrimental effects on the English as a foreign language (EFL) students' academic achievements, this study utilised an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design to initially explore the boredom factors in EFL classes among a sample of 139 university students and then develop and validate the Precursors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Psychological Patterns
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Nguyen Thi Le; Chia-Wei Tang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
While in recent years, the introduction of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) courses has been increasing in Taiwanese and Vietnamese universities, use of EMI courses is still in an early phase, and their effectiveness remains under-explored in both territories. This study aims to develop an EMI effectiveness scale and apply…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Yao Lu; Ksenia Gnevsheva – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Previous research that explores the effect of ethnicity in the perception of speaker accentedness and personality traits often finds that Asian appearance contributes to a more accented and less competent impression. Importantly, most of the work done to date employed only Caucasian first language-speaking listeners; moreover, ethnicity and gender…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Gender Differences, Personality Traits, Korean
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Wei, Rining; Jiang, He; Kong, Mengxia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Trilingualism is a powerful fact of life in many parts of the world, including most autonomous regions inhabited by minority ethnic groups in China. Although much research has been conducted on the language attitudes of stakeholders from minority ethnic groups, the attitudinal object is usually an individual language (e.g. the ethnic language, the…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Multilingualism
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Comanaru, Ruxandra-Silvia; Noels, Kimberly A.; Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Studies of bicultural identity have claimed conflict--harmony and distance--overlap as relevant axes for describing bicultural identity, whereas other research emphasises variations across social situations. Based on this literature and focus group interviews, the bicultural identity of 300 young adults from immigrant families was examined, and a…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Self Concept, Factor Structure, Immigrants
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Khajavy, Gholam Hassan; Ghonsooly, Behzad – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
The aim of the present study is twofold. First, it tests a model of willingness to read (WTR) based on L2 motivation and communication confidence (communication anxiety and perceived communicative competence). Second, it applies the recent theory of L2 motivation proposed by Dörnyei [2005. "The Psychology of Language Learner: Individual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Nonmajors, Second Language Learning
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Bernardo, Aránzazu; Amérigo, María; García, Juan A. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
This paper presents a study on the use of learning strategies in foreign languages, and more specifically Spanish. The study was conducted with 376 Chinese and American students who were studying Spanish in their countries of origin. The results obtained from a latent class cluster analysis identified five groups of participants based on the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Spanish, Second Language Instruction
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Chan, Jim Yee Him – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
This study examines Hong Kong major stakeholders' (secondary students, university students, teachers and professionals) perceptions of language variation, English language teaching (ELT) and language use in their everyday communication via a large-scale questionnaire survey (N = 1893). Based on principal components analysis of the questionnaire…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Attitudes
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Rivers, Damian J. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
Adopting mixed methods of data collection and analysis, the current study models the "perceived value of compulsory English language education" in a sample of 138 undergraduate non-language majors of Japanese nationality at a national university in Japan. During the orientation period of a compulsory 15-week English language programme,…
Descriptors: Nonmajors, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Career Planning
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Yook, Cheongmin; Lindemann, Stephanie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
This study investigates how the attitudes of 60 Korean university students towards five varieties of English are affected by the identification of the speaker's nationality and ethnicity. The study employed both a verbal guise technique and questions eliciting overt beliefs and preferences related to learning English. While the majority of the…
Descriptors: Role, Self Concept, Foreign Countries, College Students
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Yu, Baohua – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
This study examined the interrelationships of integrative motivation, competence in second language (L2) communication, sociocultural adaptation, academic adaptation and persistence of international students at an Australian university. Structural equation modelling demonstrated that the integrative motivation of international students has a…
Descriptors: Asians, Foreign Students, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning
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