ERIC Number: EJ1462127
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Mar
Pages: 30
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ISSN: ISSN-0015-718X
EISSN: EISSN-1944-9720
Available Date: 2024-09-09
Explaining the Penetrating Role of Technology in Online Foreign Language Learning Achievement
Fangwei Huang1; Haijing Zhang2
Foreign Language Annals, v58 n1 p10-39 2025
This study aims to integrate the technology acceptance model, classroom environment theory, and positive psychology theory to explore the relationships among learners' technology acceptance (TA), perceived online classroom environment (POCE), emotional states (enjoyment, anxiety, boredom, and burnout), and academic achievement in online classes. Six hundred and sixty-two university students learning Chinese as a foreign language participated in the survey and completed the reading test. The results of partial least square-structural equation modeling reveal that TA influences reading achievement directly and indirectly through anxiety (with the reversed mediating effect) and enjoyment, and the online classroom environment mediated the relationship between TA and learning emotions (except anxiety). These findings suggest that technology factors may shape the affordance of online classrooms and penetrate environmental and emotional variables to impact FL learning outcomes. Multigroup analysis with different self-online learning time underscores that enjoyment and anxiety differ in two different effect paths (POCE-enjoyment) and (TA-anxiety), implying enjoyment may be more environment-related while anxiety may be more technology-related in the online foreign language classroom. This study provides both theoretical and pedagogical implications.
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Student Attitudes, Classroom Environment, Online Courses, Psychological Patterns, Burnout, Anxiety, Academic Achievement, College Students, Chinese, Second Language Instruction, Reading Achievement
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1School of Chinese as a Second Language, Peking University, Beijing, China; 2Department of Chinese Language Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China