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Chang, Lilian Ya-Hui – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2010
This study explores how group processes, such as group cohesiveness and group norms, influence an individual EFL learner's motivation. The uniqueness of this research lies in shifting the focus from an analysis of the individual's experience being seen as apart from the group to considering the individual's experience in relation to the social…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Learning Motivation, Group Unity, Group Dynamics
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Clement, Richard; And Others – Language Learning, 1994
This study applied social psychological constructs to examine the linguistic attitudes and motivations of 301 Hungarian high school students learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Factor and correlational analyses of the results of a survey questionnaire revealed that xenophilic, sociocultural, instrumental, and media-use reasons were most…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Classroom Environment, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries