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Influence of Learner Beliefs and Gender on the Motivating Power of L2 Selves
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Yashima, Tomoko; Nishida, Rieko; Mizumoto, Atsushi – Modern Language Journal, 2017
This study investigates 3 unexplored issues regarding Second Language (L2) Motivational Self System theory. It further validates the theory using multiple structural equation modeling (SEM) along with a procedure comparing the strength of corresponding paths. Japanese university freshmen (N = 2,631) responded to a questionnaire and took the…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Structural Equation Models, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning
Toward a Model of Strategies and Summary Writing Performance
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Yang, Hui-Chun – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
This study explores the construct of a summarization test task by means of single-group and multigroup structural equation modeling (SEM). It examines the interrelationships between strategy use and performance, drawing on data from 298 Taiwanese undergraduates' summary essays and their self-reported strategy use. Single-group SEM analyses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Writing Skills, Language Tests
Rauding Theory and the TOEFL Sub-Tests
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Lee, Gabriel A. – Online Submission, 2002
Rauding theory states that two factors, accuracy and rate, explain nearly all the variance in the general reading ability of American schoolchildren (Carver, 1999). Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and regression, this dissertation investigated to what extent the Rauding model could be applied to 92 Japanese university aged young adults…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Word Recognition, Reading Ability