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Marcus Penthin; Lisa Birnbaum; Eva S. Fritzsche; Stephan Kröner – SAGE Open, 2025
The present study aims to investigate the effects of music-related beliefs on musical leisure activities of elementary school students. To this end, the relationship between music-related beliefs and musical leisure activities was examined while controlling for sex, socio-economic status, and migration background. Data analyses are based on a…
Descriptors: Music Activities, Leisure Time, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Mu-Hsuan Chou – SAGE Open, 2025
Learners' English proficiency can be shaped by social environments, motivational factors, and emotions. According to situated expectancy-value theory, students' expectations of success and subjective task values (STVs) influence academic performance. Achievement emotions, which refer to emotions directly related to learning activities or outcomes,…
Descriptors: Tutoring, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Birnbaum, Lisa; Kröner, Stephan – SAGE Open, 2022
It is desirable that children engage in reading and writing beyond school. What is known about various individual and environmental variables that may be related to children's leisure reading and writing? And how strong is existing evidence? Our scoping review aims at mapping research on leisure reading and writing in first- to fourth-graders.…
Descriptors: Recreational Reading, Writing (Composition), Leisure Time, Elementary School Students
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Art Tsang; Susanna Siu-sze Yeung – SAGE Open, 2024
Despite much attention having been paid to foreign language (FL) reading and related variables such as self-efficacy, relatively few studies have focused on young learners, and even fewer on storybooks, arguably the commonest genre read by children worldwide for language learning. As FL learning commences at a young age in many contexts globally,…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Language Proficiency, Correlation, English (Second Language)