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Kormos, Judit; Préfontaine, Yvonne – Language Teaching Research, 2017
The present mixed-methods study examined the role of learner appraisals of speech tasks in second language (L2) French fluency. Forty adult learners in a Canadian immersion program participated in the study that compared four sources of data: (1) objectively measured utterance fluency in participants' performances of three narrative tasks…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, French, Language Fluency, Second Language Learning
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Préfontaine, Yvonne; Kormos, Judit – Modern Language Journal, 2015
While there exists a considerable body of literature on task-based difficulty and second language (L2) fluency in English as a second language (ESL), there has been little investigation with French learners. This mixed methods study examines learner appraisals of task difficulty and their relationship to automated utterance fluency measures in…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, French, Second Language Learning, Difficulty Level
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Kormos, Judit; Csizér, Kata – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2014
Autonomous learning and effective self-regulatory strategies are increasingly important in foreign language learning; without these, students might not be able to exploit learning opportunities outside language classrooms. This study investigated the influence of motivational factors and self-regulatory strategies on autonomous learning behavior.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Independent Study, Role, Learning Motivation
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Kormos, Judit; Csizér, Kata; Iwaniec, Janina – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
The mixed-method study presented in this paper investigates the changes in direct and indirect intercultural contact and language-learning attitudes and effort of international students in the United Kingdom. Seventy international learners of English were asked to fill in a questionnaire three times during one academic year in an international…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Language Research, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis
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Csizer, Kata; Kormos, Judit – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
In this paper we report the results of a questionnaire survey conducted with 1777 Hungarian primary school children aged between 13 and 14 studying English and German. In our research we investigated the differences in the motivational and intercultural contact measures as well as determinants of motivated behaviour between learners of English and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Motivation, German, Native Speakers
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Kormos, Judit; Kontra, Edit Hegybiro; Csolle, Anita – System, 2002
Investigated the language wants of English majors in Hungary. A questionnaire was administered to students in all six universities in Hungary where there are students majoring in English language and literature. Results suggest that students use English mainly for academic purposes during their academic study. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Majors (Students)
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Dornyei, Zoltan; Kormos, Judit – Language Teaching Research, 2000
Explored the effects of a number of affective and social variables on learners' engagement in oral argumentative tasks. The assumption underlying the investigation was that students' verbal behavior in oral task situations is partly determined by a number of nonlinguistic and non-cognitive factors whose examination may constitute a potentially…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Research