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Eerdemutu Liu; Junju Wang; Sachurina Bai – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study examines the potential roles of self-guides (ideal L2 self/outght-to L2 self), enjoyment, and gender in language achievement. A total of 727 Chinese high school students participated in this study and data were collected through a questionnaire survey. Path analysis showed that ideal self was positively related to both enjoyment and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Xinran Wu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Names serve as a rudimentary bond that connects us to the world. The relationship between language learners' foreign names adoption and their identity construction has been receiving increased attention. With most studies conducted in English-learning contexts, this study contributes to this line of research by adopting a multilingual framework to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Naming
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Xuehua Ding; Yi Liu; Jian-E Peng – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Amidst the recent positive psychology trend, teacher resilience has captured increasing scholarly attention, while burnout remains a significant, negative construct in teachers' emotional spectrum. Research on burnout and resilience among teachers teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) is especially scant. In this study, we explored the…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Q Methodology, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
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Ju Seong Lee – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This interdisciplinary study investigates whether, and to what extent, grit (consisting of "perseverance of effort" and "consistency of interests") and classroom enjoyment are linked with EFL learners' willingness to communicate in a second language (L2 WTC), the final psychological step before actual English communication. To…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Resilience (Psychology), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Alimi, Modupe – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
Concerted efforts to characterise Botswana English (BE), though still referred to as "a variety in development", have validated its existence. However, the teaching and assessment of English in the high schools do not seem to have responded to the development of this variety. This paper discusses the viability of using Standard British…
Descriptors: High Schools, Language Planning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
An analysis of 100 Flemish high-school students' attitudes towards French and English (both "foreign" languages) revealed complex links between personality factors, gender, politicocultural identity, communicative behaviour and foreign language attitudes. Attitudes towards English were found to be much more positive than those towards French,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Personality, High School Students