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Katalin Piniel; Ágnes Albert – Language Learning, 2025
This study investigated changes in motivation, self-efficacy beliefs, and a range of emotions, including enjoyment, hope, pride, curiosity, anxiety, boredom, apathy, confusion, and shame, from a complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) perspective over a 2-year period in the Hungarian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. Using the same…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Learning Motivation
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Nikolov, Marianne – Language Learning, 2006
This paper gives an account of a project exploring 12- and 13-year-old children's uses of strategies while solving reading and writing test tasks in English as a foreign language EFL. The study was conducted to provide insights into how learners go about solving tasks and what they think and rely on while doing them. The first part provides an…
Descriptors: Test Wiseness, English (Second Language), Individual Differences, Academic Achievement
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Csizer, Kata; Dornyei, Zoltan – Language Learning, 2005
The aim of the present study is to define and describe second language L2 learners' motivational profiles by means of a statistical procedure that is relatively rarely used in L2 studies: cluster analysis. To achieve this aim, 5 broad dimensions of students' motivational and attitudinal dispositions toward 5 different L2s were measured and…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Student Motivation, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning