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Is There an "Expectancy × Value" Effect? Investigating the Impact of Self-Efficacy and Learning Motives on Chinese Undergraduates' Use of Deep Language Learning Strategies
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Zhan, Ying; Jiang, Yushan; Wan, Zhi Hong; Guo, Jin Jun – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
Drawing from Expectancy-Value Theory, this study explored the extent to which the interaction between learning motives for and self-efficacy in learning English as a foreign language (EFL) predicted deep language learning strategies by involving 693 undergraduates from mainland China in a survey. Stepwise multiple regression indicated that (i) as…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learning Strategies, Learning Theories, Second Language Learning
A Critical Review of Research on Strategies in Learning Chinese as Both a Second and Foreign Language
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Jiang, Xiaoli; Cohen, Andrew D. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
This article critically reviews strategy research on learning Chinese both as a second and foreign language. Through a careful examination of major data bases in both the Chinese and English languages, the article summarizes research in the field and the principal research methods used in the studies reviewed. Moreover, key limitations in research…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Chinese, Second Language Learning, English
Strategies for Language Learning and for Language Use: Revising the Theoretical Framework
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Macaro, Ernesto – Modern Language Journal, 2006
Since the late 1970s, there has been widespread research interest in the strategies that learners use in learning and using second languages. This interest has generated a parallel research effort in language learner strategy instruction. The body of work to date suggests a possible relationship between strategy use and second language learning…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Models, Metacognition
The Effects of the Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching Method and a Structural Analysis Method on Vocabulary Learning.
Bass, Jo Ann Fisher – 1985
Employed extensively in some Soviet bloc countries to teach a variety of subjects, the Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching (SALT) method uses a combination of physical and mental relaxation exercises, music, and suggestive principles to increase learning. However, in spite of research showing its effectiveness in teaching reading skills…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Higher Education
Learning and Language in the Classroom: Discursive Talking and Writing across the Curriculum.
Chilver, Peter; Gould, Gerard – 1982
Written by teachers for teachers, this book on language in the classroom is concerned with the various ways children are taught and the various ways they learn in response to that teaching. Chapter 1 analyzes the prewriting discussion of a group of 16 year olds to provide a model of language in use, and suggests four factors affecting the quality…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cloze Procedure, Content Area Writing, Creative Writing
The Meaning Makers: Children Learning Language and Using Language to Learn. First Edition.
Wells, Gordon – 1986
Based on a longitudinal study of language development, this book charts the language development of 32 British children from shortly after their first birthdays to the end of their elementary education, and explores a number of questions related to this development. Chapter 1 describes the children and their families, chapter 2 discusses the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment