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Hassan Mollahossein; Karim Sadeghi – TESL-EJ, 2025
This paper examines the relationship between ethnocentrism and motivation in language learning, focusing on the Ideal L2-Self and Ought to L2-Self constructs of the L2 Motivational Self System. Additionally, the study examined the potential moderating effect of gender on the relationships between ethnocentrism and both the Ideal L2-Self and Ought…
Descriptors: Ethnocentrism, Student Motivation, Second Language Learning, Self Concept
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Lilia Savova; Maryam Azarnoosh – TESOL Journal, 2024
To examine speaker role models (SRMs) in second language acquisition (SLA), this study explored the sociolinguistic "English as a lingua franca" (ELF) perspective targeting international intelligibility. Thus, it examined the way ELF learners align with self-selected English speakers and anonymous (audio-recorded) English speakers as…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Role Models, Self Concept
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Mariusz Kruk; Miroslaw Pawlak; Majid Elahi Shirvan; Tahereh Taherian – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study investigated the co-development of the ideal L2 writing self, writing enjoyment, and writing anxiety over time, as well as their predictive role in L2 writing achievement, using latent growth curve modeling (LGCM). A total of 145 EFL students in an IELTS writing course completed scales for these constructs across four one-month…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Student Attitudes
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Amir Reza Rahimi; Zahra Mosalli – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
The impact of students' intrinsic or extrinsic motivations on their future intentions for online language schooling has been widely documented, but further emphasis needs to be placed on examining motivation beyond traditional theories. Thus, the current study sought to pivot the focus from intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to university language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Online Courses, Student Motivation
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Zarrinabadi, Nourollah; Rezazadeh, Mohsen; Karimi, Mina; Lou, Nigel Mantou – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
We argue that growth (vs. fixed) mindsets are important for positive emotions and self-development because growth mindsets can foster adaptability, referring to the ability to adjust oneself in different circumstances. This study examines the role of mindsets in adaptability and whether adaptability, in turn, predicts learning emotions (anxiety…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, Beliefs, Adjustment (to Environment), Psychological Patterns
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Hussein Meihami – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Developing teachers' imagined identity, which refers to the ideal self as a professional based on virtual relationships between self and others, is essential to help teachers with future teaching practices. Drawing on Activity Theory, this study aimed to explore the role of the Professional Learning Community (PLC) in developing 12 Iranian EFL…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Communities of Practice, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
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Nourollah Zarrinabadi; Ensieh Khodarahmi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Directed Motivational Currents (DMCs) are highly intense goal-directed motivational experiences that are characterised by establishing new routines and having positive emotions. The present study aimed to identify the factors that triggered the launch of DMCs among EFL learners. An interview protocol designed based on the core dimensions of the…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intervention
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Azizullah Mirzaei; Hanieh Shafiee Rad; Mack D. Burke – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2024
Positive psychology (PP) is currently employing its modern research toolkit to examine how individual differences of hedonic (i.e. pursuing pleasure, fun, and painlessness) versus eudaimonic (i.e. pursuing meaning, self-worth, and growth) well-being motives play out against emotional and learning challenges or outcomes in life. Similarly oriented,…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Nahid Soltanian; Zargham Ghapanchi – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
Unlike communities of practice, previous studies on imagined communities of practice are scarce, yet enlightening. The present research was conducted in an English as a foreign language (EFL) context in order to provide more insight into how language learners perceive their imagined communities (ICs). It was based on Norton's (2000; 2001)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Sadoughi, Majid; Hejazi, S. Yahya; Lou, Nigel Mantou – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2023
Language mindsets and second language motivational self system (L2MSS) are two important motivational frameworks in understanding second language (L2) engagement. We argue that whether and how mindsets predict academic engagement can be explained by L2MSS components (ideal L2 self, ought-to L2 self, and learning experience). Using a multi-stage…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Tajeddin, Zia; Mostafaei Alaei, Mahnaz; Moladoust, Elahe – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Imagined communities of practice create spaces for language learners to participate in local and global interactions as individuals and as members of global communities. However, scant research has examined imagined communities of practice in the context of English as an international language (EIL). The present study adopted a mixed-methods…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Communities of Practice
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Akram Ramezanzadeh – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
This study, conducted in Iran, examined English teachers' experience of authenticity, as the performative dimension of authentication, through a conceptual framework revolving around Durchsichtig (seeing through) and Handeln (action). Data were collected via big and small stories, and were hermeneutically analysed. Authenticity was seen through…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mitra Rayati – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The present study investigates the application of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) as an innovative approach in second language teaching (SLT) to explore its impact on the professional identity of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers. Employing a sequential explanatory mixed methods design, the research involved 148 Iranian EFL teachers…
Descriptors: Neurolinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Moharami, Mehdi; Keary, Anne; Kostogriz, Alex – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2023
Iranian authorities view English language learning as a disturbing influence on national identity. They are concerned about its impact on learners' identities. Despite the political concern, there is growing interest in learning English in Iranian private schools for personal and social development. This article reports on a study in which six…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept
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Ali Elhami; Anita Roshan – Intercultural Education, 2024
Muslims may not experience integration or assimilation in European countries, as they have certain values regarding hijab, eating restrictions, and lifestyle. They may therefore face more challenges than other migrants. With the insight that religiosity may have an impact on migrants' national and/or ethnic identities, we look at the role of…
Descriptors: Religion, Immigrants, Ethnicity, Self Concept
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