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Ju Seong Lee; Nga Man Yeung; Mary Beth Osburn – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Based on Fredrickson's (2001) broaden-and-build theory, this study investigates how Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE; consisting of "teacher appreciation, personal enjoyment," and "social enjoyment") mediates the relationship between Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) and EFL secondary students' willingness to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Susanna Siu-sze Yeung; Art Tsang; William Wing Chung Lam; Tammy Sheung Ting Law – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Against the backdrop of rapidly growing attention to FL learners' emotions, the present study investigated learners' classroom emotions (anxiety, boredom, and enjoyment), literacy outcomes (reading and writing proficiency), and a largely neglected factor in FL emotions research to date -- maternal education as a proxy for socio-economic status.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns
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Xinyi Zhang; Carrie Lau – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The present study aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire assessing parents' beliefs about, and attitudes toward, supporting young children's English as a second/foreign language development -- Parent English Language Belief and Attitude Questionnaire (PELBA-Q). The PELBA-Q was piloted with 173 parents of kindergarten-aged children and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
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Chit Cheung Matthew Sung – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper contributes to our conceptualization of linguistic identities in English as a lingua franca (ELF) communication by analyzing a group of multilingual international students' narrativized accounts of their ELF communication experiences in an international university in Hong Kong. The findings of the study indicate that despite their…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Stephanie C. Sanders-Smith; Liv T. Dávila – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Post-colonial Hong Kong is an officially trilingual city with significant numbers of residents speaking English, Cantonese, Mandarin, or some combination of all three. Competency in these languages is promoted through educational policies and practices at all levels of schooling. Using concepts from the Deweyan framework of democracy and…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, English (Second Language)
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Ju Seong Lee; Tim Taylor – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This mixed-methods study investigates whether and to what extent positive psychology constructs (classroom enjoyment, grit, and growth mindset) and Extramural English predict primary school students' willingness to communicate in a second language (L2 WTC) both in the classroom (a fictitious but common setting for English communication among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tsang, Art – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
This mixed-methods study explored learners' perceptions of ten L1 and L2 English accents. These participants (n = 97) were bilinguals who spoke English as a first/second language. From the experiments, the findings showed that the L1 accents, although overall viewed more positively than the L2 ones, were not perceived consistently in: suitability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Dialects
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Chun Lai; Mingyue Gu; Fang Gao; JoJo Wan Shan Yung – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Despite evidence of the acculturation benefits of social media engagement with mainstream culture, there is limited understanding of what motivates or demotivates ethnic minorities' social media engagement with mainstream culture. Adopting the theoretical construct of investment, this study interviewed 31 ethnic minority secondary school students…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Minority Groups, Social Media, Secondary School Students
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Shen, Bin; Bai, Barry; Park, Moonyoung – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
As an intimidating school subject for students globally, writing requires a high level of motivation, especially for second language (L2) learners. Despite abundant research on motivation in both first language (L1) writing and L2 learning, L2 writing motivation warrants more attention. To bridge the gap, the study intends to present an overall…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Tsang, Art – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
In the context of the exponential growth of multicultural campuses worldwide and the consequent need for students to engage in intercultural interaction, this article reports on parts of the findings of a study examining the relationships between learners' backgrounds (language and intercultural experiences) and their intercultural views and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Intercultural Communication, Multilingualism, Student Attitudes
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Biying Wu; Jindong Liu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Quantitative research on the linguistic acculturation of sojourners in non-Western and multilingual social contexts remains scarce. Revising the Framework of Acculturation Variables (FAV), we propose a parsimonious model exploring the effect of acculturation conditions (trilingual language usage and perceived discrimination), orientations (social…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Foreign Students, Well Being, Acculturation
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Sung, Chit Cheung Matthew – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study on a group of mainland Chinese students' multilingual experiences during their cross-border studies in a Hong Kong university from a language ideological perspective. Drawing on in-depth interviews as the primary dataset, the study investigated the language ideologies held by the participants…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Multilingualism, Language Attitudes, Mandarin Chinese
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Du, Xujia; Jackson, Jane – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
In many theorizations of L2 motivation, the discrepancy between actual and possible L2 selves has been closely associated with motivation generation, and L2 selves are considered as highly interactive with the context. This article centres on the interplay between L2 self-discrepancy, motivation, and context by following two Chinese university…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, Self Concept
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Hua, Congchao; Li, Yee Na; Li, Bin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This study examined proficiency levels and attitudes of main languages in use among ethnic minority students in Hong Kong. We surveyed 260 students from primary and secondary schools with English as the medium of instruction. They were multilingual speakers who were proficient in spoken English and Cantonese. Our results revealed asymmetric and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Ethnic Groups, Cultural Pluralism, Self Concept
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Hansen Edwards, Jette G.; Zampini, Mary L.; Cunningham, Caitlin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
This study examines language attitudes towards different varieties of English through listener judgments of speaker and speech traits; in addition, the study explores the relationship of these judgments to the intelligibility, as well as the perceived accentedness and comprehensibility, of varieties of Asian English and General American English.…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Asians, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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