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Jung Ku, Chen; Yoke Lian, Lau; Rizal, Hamid; Rau Krishnan, Anath; Amin, Hanudin; Samsulbahri, Mohd Nasir; Ghazali, Mohd Fahmi – Asian Journal of University Education, 2021
The present study aims to develop a model illuminating the relationship between student personality traits and motivation towards learning Mandarin as a foreign language. A model framework consisting of five exogenous variables and one endogenous variable of motivation are examined in the present study. Sample of 260 undergraduates taking Mandarin…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Personality Traits, Student Motivation, Mandarin Chinese
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Vural, Haldun – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2022
Translation is closely related to languages, linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, culture etc. and because of these relations, there are also a lot of theories which give importance either to source language or target language. Linguistic and other features of the source and target texts have been examined for years. But translator is an…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Translation, Personality Measures, College Students
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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