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TuongVan Vu; Martijn Meeter; Abe Hofman; Brenda Jansen; Lucía Magis-Weinberg; Elise van Triest; Nienke van Atteveldt – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2025
Background: The purported reciprocity between motivation and academic achievement in education has largely been supported by correlational data. Aims: Our first aim was to determine experimentally whether motivation and achievement are reciprocally related. The second objective was to investigate a potential behavioural mediation pathway between…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Academic Achievement, Correlation, Undergraduate Students
Youngmi Kim; Shinyu Oh; Tae-Young Kim – English Teaching, 2025
This study explored factors affecting variability in second language (L2) learning motivation among Korean university students and how they appraised their L2 learning experience. In this study, 85 undergraduate students majoring in English or English education from three universities in Seoul, South Korea, reflected on their past English learning…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, Learning Experience, Foreign Countries
Wang, Tianyi; Fisher, Linda – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
While interest in multilingualism is growing, in the field of motivation little research has examined the role played by learners' multilingual selves in constructing their motivation to learn a foreign language other than English (LOTE). Based on a dynamic model of the L2 Motivational Self System, this study explores how Chinese undergraduates'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Learning Motivation, Multilingualism
Xian Li; Jiying Han – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
Taking the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) model as its theoretical basis, this study aimed to extend knowledge of the learning motivation of Korean language learners. A survey questionnaire was administered to 967 Korean language learners at 28 universities in China to investigate their motivation for learning the Korean language and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Korean, College Students
Silvie Prevrátilová – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
Although motivation is an extensively discussed topic, minor languages deserve more research attention. This qualitative multiple case study explores motivation to learn Czech as a second language in Beginners' Czech language courses for Erasmus students in the Czech Republic through the lens of the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS), searching…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Slavic Languages, Introductory Courses
Esther De Vrind; Fred J. J. M. Janssen; Jan H. Van Driel; Nivja H. De Jong – Modern Language Journal, 2024
In foreign language learning, it is important that learners become autonomous and learn how to self-regulate their learning to continue language development. This article presents a self-evaluation procedure designed to promote self-regulation in speaking skills in a foreign language. This self-evaluation procedure was tested in a…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Second Language Learning, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
Valizadeh, Mohammadreza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2022
The use of movies in EFL classes has attracted the attention of researchers interested in this area. The use of sitcoms, as a type of audio-visual material, for language learning has been studied but not extensively. This study examined the effect of sitcoms on EFL learners' foreign language anxiety (FLA) and motivation for learning. A…
Descriptors: Films, English (Second Language), Television, Second Language Learning
Zhangwei Chen – SAGE Open, 2024
Motivation and anxiety are two crucial factors influencing learning outcomes, yet limited empirical research on expectancy-value theory can be found within previous literature about Chinese undergraduate students studying English as a foreign language (EFL). Moreover, few studies have examined the interaction between motivation and skill-specific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Fuyu Kong; Yanli Zhang – SAGE Open, 2024
To explore the washback of the HSK on students learning Chinese as a Second Language (CSL), the study surveyed 1,616 SCL students from 25 different mother tongue backgrounds and interviewed international students studying in China through questionnaire and interview. The following was found in this study: (a) The HSK influenced both the process…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
Hiromi Nishioka – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2024
With rapid globalization, it is an urgent task for universities in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context to provide practical English education. Particularly, one that enables students to participate in the global society as well as the global business market. The challenge for these universities is to achieve this goal with limited class…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Wang, Zi; Zhang, Chang; Li, Shiyu – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2023
Identity issues have been an area of focus in language learning motivation scholarship. However, the role of national identity in language learning motivation has not received sufficient attention. In response to the timely call for reflections on nationalism and language education, this study examines how political nationalism and cultural…
Descriptors: Japanese, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation
Tran, Thao Quoc; Nguyen, Dung M. T. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Intercultural language learning (ICLL) has become an important concept that drives English learners' attention to the understanding and application of cultural elements in their English learning process; however, the learning motivation for and engagement in the proliferation of culture in English language teaching vary from one context to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation
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)
Amina Bashir; Aamir Aziz; Muhammad Imran; Norah Almusharraf – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2025
With technological advancement, multimodality has received paramount importance in teaching and learning. Different technology-based assistance is available nowadays, and computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is one of them. It uses computer-based tools, materials, resources, and information to assist second language learning. Motivation…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, Intention
Ha Thanh Bich Loan; Trinh Quoc Lap; Bui Le Diem Trang – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: This study conducts a systematic review of research articles related to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' motivation under Organismic Integration Theory (OIT) in the early 2020s (between 2020 and 2024), based on PRISMA statement 2020 (Page et al., 2021), to find out about what recent trends in research on EFL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation