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Seçgin, Pelin Çelik; Ince, Murat; Eker, Cevat – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of English language teachers' perfectionism and self-efficacy perceptions on their professional motivation levels. The research was a relational survey model and causal comparison research. The study consisted of 450 English teachers working in official primary and secondary schools affiliated to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Self Efficacy, Personality Traits
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Angelovska, Tanja; Mercer, Sarah; Talbot, Kyle Read – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
Engagement is seen as a highly desirable outcome and process contributing to successful learning. In second language acquisition (SLA), we know comparatively little about the nature of engagement for learning a language, in particular the kind of individual differences in learners that account for variations in engagement. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Learner Engagement, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Hong Shi; Shuqi Quan – World Journal of Education, 2024
An increasing number of research is focusing on L2 grit, which plays a significant role in SLA. But few studies examine the factors that affect L2 grit. This study investigates the internal predictors influencing L2 grit in Chinese college students, specifically focusing on L2 willingness to communicate (WTC), L2 anxiety and L2 joy. A structural…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes, Personality Traits, Second Language Instruction
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Miroslaw Pawlak; Kata Csizér; Mariusz Kruk; Joanna Zawodniak – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Grit is among the individual difference (ID) variables that have recently come to the attention of researchers investigating second language acquisition. While some empirical evidence has been accumulated, it is clearly scant and limited, also because of the fact that many studies have looked into domain-general grit rather than this attribute as…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Mostafa Azari Noughabi; Behzad Ghonsooly; Safoura Jahedizadeh – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Due to the novelty of the concept of language teacher immunity, scant research attention has been dedicated to exploring its personality-based and psychological correlates in language teaching research. To expand the line of research investigating the contributing factors to language teachers' immunity, the present study, informed by positive…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Academic Persistence
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Zhang, Jiayi; Beckmann, Nadin; Beckmann, Jens F. – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Chinese students are frequently seen as passive learners because of their apparent reluctance to speak, particularly in English classrooms. However, this impression seems to reflect a stereotype which is likely to confound willingness to communicate (WTC) and communication behaviour. In this article we argue for more attention to be paid to…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Kiatkeeree, Jettapol; Ruangjaroon, Sugunya – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
Past research has found that an individual's academic success, including success in English language learning, can be predicted by a person's 'grit'. Grit is a personality trait defined as the combination of perseverance of effort and consistency of interests. Other than grit, learner engagement is another factor considered to be highly related to…
Descriptors: Correlation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sak, Mehmet – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
Recent years have seen a growing research interest in the notion of directed motivational currents (DMCs) that defines highly intense motivational surges oriented to a much-desired goal of personal significance. However, the learner characteristics that induce individual-level variability in DMCs have yet to be explored. In particular, the role of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Predictor Variables
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Li, Chengchen; Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2021
Interest in the role of learners' personality, emotions and the learning environment in foreign language (FL) learning has grown exponentially in the past decade. The introduction of personality psychology in the field of applied linguistics has led to the inclusion of a set of personality dimensions in research designs like resilience and grit,…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Classroom Environment, Resilience (Psychology), Second Language Learning
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Elmali Özsaray, Alev; Eren, Altay – International Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, 2018
The aim of the study was to examine the relationships between achievement emotions, epistemic curiosity, and graded performance regarding English courses of undergraduate students in English preparatory classes. Exploratory correlational design was adopted in the study. A total of 475 undergraduate students in English preparatory classes…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Predictor Variables
Capellan, Frank – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality types and second language acquisition. The study addressed a problem that is inadequately investigated in foreign language acquisition research; specifically, personality traits as predictors of language learning in college students studying Spanish as a foreign…
Descriptors: Correlation, Personality Traits, Second Language Learning, Grades (Scholastic)
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Navidinia, Hossein; Beidokhti, Zeinab; Hekmati, Nargess – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2017
This study aims to investigate the predictive power of personality traits for EFL students' preference for isolated or integrated form-focused instruction (FFI). Participants were 160 Iranian EFL university students. Results indicated that students' personality traits, as measured by Costa and McCrae (Revised NEO Personality inventory (NEO-PI-R)…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, College Students
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Tahir, Khazima – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2018
The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential of transformational teaching practices in learning and teaching of English as a second language in Pakistan. The study examined student descriptions about professorial charisma, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration in bachelor English programs, as well as how these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Transformative Learning
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Resnik, Pia; Moskowitz, Sharona; Panicacci, Alex – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2021
When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, the education sector soon faced the unprecedented challenge of moving courses online within no time. The rapid implementation of emergency remote teaching (ERT) led to students and teachers alike being thrown into an emotional terra incognita. This paper sets out to explore if foreign language (LX) grit,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Scores
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Khany, Reza; Nejad, Ali Mansouri – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2017
This study examines the relationship between L2 willingness to communicate (L2WTC), L2 unwillingness to communicate (L2UWTC) and the personality traits of openness to experience and extraversion in an Iranian context. The Pearson correlation and descriptive statistics were used to analyse the results from a study with 217 English major students. A…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Structural Equation Models, Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language)
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