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Ianos, Maria Adelina; Rusu, Andrei; Huguet, Àngel; Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
In line with the increased interest in studying implicit language attitudes, this study aims to explore implicit attitudes towards Catalan and Spanish in the multicultural and multilingual context of Catalonia (Spain) using the Implicit Association Test (IAT). A sample of 113 adolescents completed the IAT and a set of explicit measures of…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism, Language Attitudes
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Lihong Ma; Leifeng Xiao; Jian Liu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
With the widening urban-rural gap caused by urbanisation, the equity of urban-rural education has become a research hotspot. This study explored the differences in motivational beliefs about English learning among Chinese urban and rural students and the impact of motivational beliefs on their English performance. A total of 6326 urban and 2600…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Buckingham, Lyndsay R.; Fernández Álvarez, Miguel; Halbach, Ana – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This article aims to contribute to the explanation of why bilingual education (CLIL) may reduce the differences in motivation and English proficiency commonly seen between students from different SES backgrounds (Shepherd and Ainsworth 2017). From a mixed-methods approach involving a questionnaire and focus group interviews, fourth year Secondary…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Bilingual Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Barry Bai; Youyan Nie; Ai Noi Lee – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
The present study examined the relations between three motivational variables, i.e. academic self-efficacy, task importance, and interest with three types of learning behaviours, i.e. class engagement, metacognitive self-regulation, and avoidance coping with 1954 secondary students in Singapore. Positive correlations were found between the three…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Lee, Ju Seong; Sylvén, Liss Kerstin; Lee, Kilryoung – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Although there have been several comparative studies of willingness to communicate in a first language (L1 WTC), there is a dearth of comparative research on L2 WTC, especially between groups with distinct cultural and educational backgrounds. This study synthesises the L2 motivational self system (ideal L2 self and ought-to L2 self) and attitudes…
Descriptors: Korean, Swedish, Second Language Learning, Self Concept
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Wu, Xi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
In recent years, increasing numbers of Chinese international secondary school students have come to study in Canada. Upon arriving in their international context, their academic studies are influenced by socio-economic and cultural forces circulating between the home and host spaces of China and Canada. This paper delves into the economic,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Neoliberalism, Ethnography, Foreign Students
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Ryan, Stephen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009
This article has emerged from a large-scale, nationwide attitudinal study (n=2397) into the motivation of learners of English in Japan, which initially found that enjoyment of the learning experience seemed to be the major factor in the motivation of English learners. However, subsequent examination of the data revealed several incongruities in…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Ceuleers, Evy – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
In Belgium and Brussels, macrocontextual features such as language policy and language legislation have a profound impact on people's language use and on the way languages are learned. In order to explain this impact, the political and economic developments that have determined the current context of learners in Brussels are discussed. Secondly, a…
Descriptors: Language Planning, French, Multilingualism, Learning Motivation
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Huguet, Angel – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006
In the bilingual contexts of two regions of Spain, Asturias (Asturian/Spanish) and Eastern Aragon (Catalan/Spanish), and given the relationship between language attitudes and linguistic proficiency, our study has two objectives. Firstly, the attitudes to the two contact languages are described. Secondly, the variables that can explain such…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Language Proficiency