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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
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
Daniel Jung – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research into second language acquisition (SLA) has shown that individual difference (ID) variables can be strong predictors of language achievement (e.g., Dornyei, 2003; Skehan, 2003). Traditionally, this research conceptualized ID variables as static and monolithic variables (e.g., Dornyei, 2010). More recently scholars have questioned this…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Shiyao Ashlee Zhou; Phil Hiver; Yongyan Zheng – Applied Linguistics, 2023
In this study, we investigated how student engagement and disengagement change over the course of a semester in the L2 classroom. We modeled change at the inter- and intra-individual levels, using time-variant predictors to examine differences in student classroom engagement and disengagement trajectories. In addition to these temporal dynamics,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Learner Engagement
Iara Maria Segarra – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Second language learning success relies on instructional methodologies that foster guidance, engagement, motivation, creativity, and active learning in an inclusive environment. As language educators, it is important to establish instructional modes to entice positive behavior and stimulate the senses. The problem to be addressed by the study is…
Descriptors: Neurolinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Juyeon Yoo – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This qualitative case study examines the language learning trajectory of a South Korean international undergraduate student (Stella) in the United Kingdom. Previous studies have reported a lack of research on the intricate relationships between motivation and investment. To fill this gap, this study examined Stella's shifting levels of motivation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning
Mingyu Li – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
Drawing from (Dörnyei's, The Psychology of the language learner: Individual differences in second language acquisition, 2005) L2 Motivational Self System, this case study delved into the L2 learning motivations of liberal arts and science English majors at a transnational university in China, where English Medium Instruction (EMI) is prevalent.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Mukasheva Bayan Muratbekovna; Aydan Irgatoglu; Golovchun Alevtina Anatolievna; Karbozova Gulnara Kumisbekovna – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
This study examines the effectiveness of problem-based learning (PBL) technology in forming a foreign language professionally oriented competence of students of non-linguistic specialities. It was conducted with 60 students divided into experimental and control groups, who were taught a professionally oriented foreign language. The experimental…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sophia A. Strietholt – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Learning an L2 is often said to transform an individual into a new (and improved) version of the self. This mixed-method study investigated (1) whether, and if so, in what way such a transformation occurs within the L2 learner self; and (2) whether current theories of self and motivation in the fields of SLA and psychology adequately address L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept, German
Han, Yeji – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
Although contextual influences on L2 motivation have been widely acknowledged, studies of underrepresented learners of less-commonly-taught languages have been extremely rare. To fill this gap, this study aimed to promote the local understanding of motivation among Vietnamese learners of Korean within the theoretical framework of L2 selves and…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jenjira Jitpaiboon; Atichat Rungswang; Yuki Miyamoto – rEFLections, 2024
Current theories about learning a second language might not fully explain why people want to learn languages other than English (LOTE) in the context of globalization and multilingualism. This study adopted and adjusted Huang's (2021) motivational dimensions for LOTE learners, specifically focusing on those who learn LOTE as a third language (L3),…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Japanese, Learning Motivation
Zhonggen Yu – SAGE Open, 2023
The past several years have been witnessing the fast development of information and communication technology, with which an increasing number of serious games are being designed and developed. Randomly selected participants were divided into the treatment and control cohorts. Two experiments, as well as a semi-structured interview, were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Game Based Learning