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Yanhong Ma – SAGE Open, 2025
Research on language motivation has tended to focus on the phenomena of demotivation and remotivation in the English classroom. This study utilized Q methodology to analyze the dynamics of demotivation and remotivation among 15 Chinese university students during their English learning process from primary school to senior middle school. Informed…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Student Motivation, Q Methodology, College Students
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Ashley Beccia; Wai Man Adrienne Lew; ZhaoHong Han – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
In the field of applied linguistics, Diane Larsen-Freeman is widely recognized, among her numerous contributions, as the originator of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST). Over the years since her seminal publication (Larsen-Freeman, 1997), CDST has evolved into a meta-theory that guides the field's thinking on a variety of developmental…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Applied Linguistics
Tao, Yuan – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
With the 'New National Teaching Quality Standards' and its supplement -- the 'Guide for the Russian Majors Education' as language education policies, this paper argues that these policies have constructed an ecological environment for Russian language teachers' (RLTs) agency in China. The interpretive policy analysis, interviews and classroom…
Descriptors: Russian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Majors (Students)
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Yedigöz-Kara, Zehra; Bümen, Nilay T. – International Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, 2022
There is a rich body of studies on the implementation problems of curricular changes comprising more student-centred methodologies in English as a foreign language education around the world. Focusing on these global-wide studies within the context of the Ecological System Theory, this meta-synthesis aims to identify the common factors that hinder…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Huang, Ting; Steinkrauss, Rasmus; Verspoor, Marjolijn – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
There is quite a bit of evidence showing that the experience of learning an L2 will help in learning an L3, but as far as we know, very little research has investigated the possible impact of L3 learning on the already existing and still developing L2 system within the learner. According to Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST), language…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transfer of Training
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Zheng, Yongyan; Lu, Xiuchuan; Ren, Wei – Modern Language Journal, 2020
This study uses a Q methodology to track the changing motivational profiles of 15 Chinese university students simultaneously engaged in second-language (L2) English and third-language (L3) Spanish learning over 1.5 years. Guided by complex dynamic systems theory (CDST), the study aims to investigate the initial trigger that propelled the Chinese…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zheng, Hongying – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
Research on teachers' beliefs has provided useful insights into understanding processes of teaching. However, no research has explored teachers' beliefs as a system nor have researchers investigated the substance of interactions between teachers' beliefs, practices and context. Therefore, the author adopts complexity theory to explore the features…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Correlation