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Yuhan Wang; Xin Sun – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
Chinese culture emphasizes the role of diligence in learning, and thus such educational values are thought to promote a growth mindset--the belief that one's intellectual potential can be improved through investing efforts. Yet, some recent studies found mixed or even opposite trends that Chinese students hold a relatively fixed mindset of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asian Culture, Meta Analysis, Self Efficacy
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Hewei, Tian; Youngsook, Lee – SAGE Open, 2022
Using technology to support learning is a major trend in the development of modern education. In the face of COVID-19, online courses play an important role. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a large number of online art design courses have been developed in China. Art design courses involve many practical investigation and skill operation links,…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Learning Motivation, Intention, Undergraduate Students
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Li, Chengchen; Wei, Li – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Building on the control-value theory, the present study examined the independent and joint predictive effects of three emotions--enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom--on L2 achievement over time. The participants of the study were a group of junior secondary English learners in rural China, a population that has hitherto never featured in L2 learning…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Psychological Patterns, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chengchen Li – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The past decade has witnessed a surge of research interest in diverse emotions that foreign/second language (L2) learners experience. However, research on L2 boredom is just starting. The current study focuses on foreign language learning boredom (FLLB) and foreign language enjoyment (FLE), and examines how they are associated with a wide range of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Psychological Patterns
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Zhu, Xinhua; Yao, Yuan; Pang, Wanru; Zhu, Siyu – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Existing studies on L2 motivation have established a significant association between ideal self, learning engagement, and academic achievement, but few have examined the internal relationships between these variables in the L2 writing domain. In addition, students' linguistic competence, a fundamental element of writing achievement, remains…
Descriptors: Correlation, Linguistic Competence, Learning Motivation, Writing Achievement
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Lili Qin; Xibei Ouyang; Yang Gao; Mairin Hennebry-Leung – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
In new paradigms, teachers' cognition and emotion must be considered dialectically shaped co-evolving processes. To address the issue, the study examined how language teachers' "perezhivaniya" (plural form of "perezhivanie," a concept from Sociocultural Theory that describes a unity between cognition and emotion) developed.…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Li, Chengchen – Modern Language Journal, 2021
There is a growing research interest in a variety of emotions in foreign and second language (L2) classrooms, especially since the introduction of positive psychology. However, research on the ubiquitous emotional experience of boredom is scant. Building on its prevalence and documented deleterious effects, I argue that research on the antecedents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Thompson, Amy S.; Liu, Yao – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This study examines motivation and multilingualism using quantitative data from 468 language learners in China. More precisely, the point of inquiry was to investigate the language-specificity of the psychological aspects of self within the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS). The Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) with the L2 English data revealed…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Self Concept, Factor Analysis, Second Language Learning
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Ma, Jiani; Wen, Qin – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Despite the dramatic rise in international student enrolment in Chinese higher education institutions, the classroom learning experiences of these students are not adequately reflected in the international literature. The present qualitative study explores the learning experiences of 33 international students in different types of classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Foreign Students, Student Experience
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Xing, Deyu; Bolden, Benjamin – Journal of International Students, 2019
This study employed narrative inquiry to understand the oral English learning motivation of Chinese international students with low oral English proficiency through their academic acculturation stories. Expectancy-value theory served as the theoretical framework to inform the study design and the interpretation of results. Findings suggest all…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Jin, Wen; Lin, Yuewu – English Language Teaching, 2018
The psychological quality is a stable, basic and derivative psychological character, and is a dynamic organization composed of four subs-systems of cognition, personality psychology, mental health and social adaptation. Foreign and domestic scholars have done plenty of researches on the relationship between the academic performance and several…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Wang, Renfeng; De Donder, Liesbeth; De Backer, Free; Shihua, Li; Honghui, Pan; Thomas, Valerie; Vanslambrouck, Silke; Lombaerts, Koen – Educational Gerontology, 2016
Background and aim: Even though the beneficial effects of elderly learning are widely acknowledged, many older Chinese people are still not involved. This paper aims to examine the barriers that affect the level of educational participation of older adults in China. Methodology: Using a focus group methodology, 43 older participants (aged 55 years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Barriers, Access to Education
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Weiwei, Huang – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
As a theory based on the hypothesis of "happy man" about human nature, happiness management plays a significant guiding role in the optimization of the training model of local Chinese normal university students during the transitional period. Under the guidance of this theory, China should adhere to the people-oriented principle,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Educational Philosophy, Preservice Teacher Education
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Wang, Yurong; Lin, Li – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Pygmalion Effect, or Robert Rosenthal Effect, was proved by the famous American psychologist Robert Rosenthal and Jacobson in 1968. Pygmalion Effect, as a matter of fact, is a psychological suggestion, which believes that people can accept the influence and suggestion given by the people whom very much they admire, like, believe, and respect. This…
Descriptors: Role Models, Psychological Patterns, English (Second Language), College Second Language Programs