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Gorges, Julia – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Self-concepts of ability (SCA) and intrinsic task values (ITV) are key determinants of students' choice of study program and dropout. Both constructs are multidimensional (i.e., specific to curricular learning content) and hierarchically structured (i.e., aggregate into one or more higher-order factors). The present study investigated German…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Dropouts, Business Administration Education, Longitudinal Studies
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Böhm, Stephan; Constantine, Georges Philip – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to focus on contextualized features for mobile language learning apps. The scope of this paper is to explore students' perceptions of contextualized mobile language learning. Design/Methodology/Approach: An extended Technology Acceptance Model was developed to analyze the effect of contextual app features on students'…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Student Attitudes, Computer Oriented Programs
Böhm, Stephan; Constantine, Georges Philip – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
The mobility of both the device and the learner will determine how mobile learning takes place. Mobile learning offers new educational opportunities that allow for autonomous, personalized and context aware learning. This paper focuses on contextualized features for mobile language learning apps. Context-awareness is seen as a particularly…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Electronic Learning, Telecommunications
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Gniewosz, Burkhard; Noack, Peter – Journal of Adolescence, 2012
The present study investigates the intergenerational transmission of academic task values within family in early adolescence. Social learning processes are assumed to operate through the students' perceptions of their parents' values. The major goal of this study is to show that this values transmission is facilitated by between-parent value…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Early Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Learning Processes
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Faber, Gunter – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2012
Introduction: Due to a considerable lack in empirical efforts and appropriate instruments, and theoretically rooted in a cognitive-motivational perspective on academic personality development, the present study analyzes a questionnaire for measuring EFL learners' self-perceptions of oral narrative competencies and perceived anxiety concerning oral…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Anxiety, English (Second Language), Personality
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Csizer, Kata; Kormos, Judit – Applied Linguistics, 2009
The research reported in this paper explores the effect of direct and indirect cross-cultural contact on Hungarian school children's attitudes and motivated behaviour by means of structural equation modelling. Our data are based on a national representative survey of 1,777 13/14-year-old learners of English and German in Hungary; 237 of the…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Foreign Countries, English, Language Acquisition
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Cochran, Jeff L.; McCallum, R. Steve; Bell, Sherry Mee – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
The researchers investigated attributions for success, attitudes, and aptitudes for native language learning and foreign language learning success for 648 students enrolled in 100-level university foreign language courses (Spanish, French, and German). We examined relationships via correlational analyses and used structural equation modeling to…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Second Language Instruction, Language Aptitude, Student Attitudes