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Attitudes toward Task-Based Language Learning: A Study of College Korean Language Learners
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Pyun, Danielle Ooyoung – Foreign Language Annals, 2013
This study explores second/foreign language (L2) learners' attitudes toward task-based language learning (TBLL) and how these attitudes relate to selected learner variables, namely anxiety, integrated motivation, instrumental motivation, and self-efficacy. Ninety-one college students of Korean as a foreign language, who received task-based…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes, Anxiety
Perceived Foreign Accent: Extended Stays Abroad, Level of Instruction, and Motivation
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Martinsen, Rob A.; Alvord, Scott M.; Tanner, Joshua – Foreign Language Annals, 2014
Studies have examined various factors that affect pronunciation including phonetic context, style variation, first language transfer, and experience abroad. A plethora of research has also linked motivation to higher levels of proficiency in the second language. The present study uses native speaker ratings and multiple regression analysis to…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Foreign Countries, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning
Foreign Language Anxiety and Learning Style.
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Bailey, Phillip; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.; Daley, Christine E. – Foreign Language Annals, 1999
A study of 146 university students attempted to identify a combination of learning modalities that might be correlated with foreign language anxiety. A setwise multiple regression analysis revealed that, of 20 learning-modality variables, only responsibility and peer-orientation appeared to be related to foreign-language anxiety. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Communication Apprehension, Higher Education
Language Learning Strategies and English Proficiency of Chinese University Students
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Nisbet, Deanna L.; Tindall, Evie R.; Arroyo, Alan A. – Foreign Language Annals, 2005
This study investigated the relationship between language learning strategy (LLS) preferences and English proficiency among Chinese university students. Oxford's (1990), Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) and an institutional version (ITP) of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) were administered to 168 third-year English…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)