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Chengchen Li; Miroslaw Pawlak; Mariusz Kruk – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
The study intended to describe profiles of three achievement emotions (enjoyment, boredom, anxiety), their associations with each other and with control-value appraisals within the framework of the control-value theory. A total of 2002 Chinese university EFL students from 11 universities in China participated in the questionnaire survey.…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Theories, Achievement, Emotional Response
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Xiaojuan Gao – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Mindfulness has been overlooked in previous studies of second or foreign language learning. This study aims to explore the relationship between mindfulness, anxiety, burnout and self-perceived foreign language proficiency among a sample of 492 learners. Further, it seeks to make up for the deficiency in the current empirical literature regarding…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Burnout
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Wafa Al-Alawi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Due to modernisation and Englishisation in Bahrain, noticeably different types of bilingual and bicultural experiences exist, especially among the youth. Recently, the rise of Chinese education policies in the region raises the question of how it might alter the local linguistic market and the forms of capital within it. Applying a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Chinese, Second Language Learning
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Chengchen Li; Lawrence Jun Zhang; Guiying Jiang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The study seeks to conceptualise foreign language learning burnout and provide its corresponding measurement. The 15-item "Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey" (MBI-SS) was rephrased to fit an English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learning context. The modified MBI-SS was then assessed among 1718 Chinese secondary EFL students. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Zhou, Li; Xi, Yiheng; Lochtman, Katja – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
The present study aimed to explore the potential moderating effect of foreign language anxiety (FLA) on the relationship between second language (L2) competence and willingness to communicate (WTC) in 129 Chinese study-abroad English learners in Belgium. Descriptive analyses revealed fairly low levels of FLA and high levels of WTC of the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency, Classroom Communication
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Rui Yuan; Xuyan Qiu; Chuang Wang; Tiefu Zhang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Informed by a mixed methods research design, the study investigates the interrelations between students' attitudes toward English learning, English-medium instruction (EMI), and the use of their first language (i.e. code-switching) in relation to a range of biographic and contextual factors in their situated EMI programmes. The quantitative…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Rining Wei; Barry Lee Reynolds; Mengxia Kong; Zhixin Liu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Psychological variables remain a much under-investigated sub-category of individual differences (IDs) compared with cognitive ones. The present paper aims to gain a better understanding of the psychological effects of bilingualism by investigating national identity (NI), a socio-psychological construct, based on big data, that has rarely been…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Nationalism, Self Concept, Psychological Patterns
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Shanshan Yang; Mostafa Azari Noughabi; Safoura Jahedizadeh – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
While L2 grit has been increasingly related to language learning outcomes, scant attention has been dedicated to the investigation of the antecedents of L2 grit. To partially address the issue, the present multicultural study models the relationships among L2 grit, academic buoyancy, and self-efficacy. A total of 824 English as a Foreign Language…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Resilience (Psychology), Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning
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Yuchao Sun; Wenshu Shi; Liyan Fu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Given the fact that learner engagement is a prerequisite for effective online education, identifying and comprehending the factors that enhance learners' engagement in online classes seems necessary. To address this need, several studies have been conducted to identify the predictors of learner engagement in online classrooms. Nevertheless,…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Online Courses, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hong Zhang; Xiaonan Li; Wenzhe Chang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study examines the representation of cultures across three sets of national English textbooks currently used in China by conducting a synchronic content analysis to explore what and how cultures are represented in the textbooks. Data analysis was conducted based on a newly constructed framework focusing on the content (countries and…
Descriptors: Cultural Traits, Cultural Awareness, Asian Culture, Textbooks
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Li, Heng; Shen, Shu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Because of the quickening pace of globalisation, recent years have witnessed a rise of bilingualism throughout the world. Prior research has documented a range of cognitive benefits and costs of being bilingual. The current work uncovers another potential positive side of being bilingual: the control of overconfidence in peer-comparison problems.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Self Esteem, Bias, Language Attitudes
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Wen Xu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The growth of the Chinese language in African countries and African students' consequent flocking into Chinese higher education are both emergent phenomena. This partly explains the lack of empirical research on this body of student migrants and their Chinese language learning. This paper applies Watkins' theorisation on pedagogic affect to…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Students
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Shanhua He – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper proposes a concept of "campus vitality" of languages: the ability of a language to maintain its prestige, visibility and continuity on university campuses. A seven-factor framework is developed for on-the-ground investigation of the relevant languages in a given campus context. These indexical factors are the number,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Planning, Multilingualism
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Eerdemutu Liu; Junju Wang; Sachurina Bai – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study examines the potential roles of self-guides (ideal L2 self/outght-to L2 self), enjoyment, and gender in language achievement. A total of 727 Chinese high school students participated in this study and data were collected through a questionnaire survey. Path analysis showed that ideal self was positively related to both enjoyment and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Xi Yan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Private English education has been expanding rapidly across China during the past three decades. This study investigates the resignification of English through the linguistic landscape of a private English training centre in Datong, a small and less-developed city of China. The findings show that the centre draws from both neoliberal discourse and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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