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Second language writing anxiety, computer anxiety, and performance in a classroom versus a web-based environment

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Dracopoulous E., Pichette F.
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
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2011
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vol. 1
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issue 1
101-117
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The study examined the impact of writing anxiety and computer anxiety on language learning for 45 ESL adult learners enrolled in an English grammar and writing course.
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Teaching Languages Remotely: Issues, Hurdles and Successes

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Pichette F., Gagné N.
Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium
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2022
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issue 1
81-97
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Pandemia COVID-19 zmusiła niezliczone uczelnie i uniwersytety na całym świecie do przejścia na nauczanie zdalne, a wielu nauczycieli językowa prowadziło swoje kursy w zwykły sposób, choć zdalnie. To synchroniczne rozwiązanie było motywowane pilnością sytuacji, ale także powszechnym przekonaniem, że języków nie można efektywnie uczyć się bez jednoczesnej obecności nauczyciela i innych uczniów. Jednak nowe technologie, którymi dysponujemy, w coraz większym stopniu obalają ten mit, sprawiając, że asynchroniczne nauczanie języków jest bardzo wydajne pomimo szeregu wyzwań. Niniejszy artykuł przedstawia dane z Université TÉLUQ, najstarszego na świecie francuskojęzycznego uniwersytetu, gdzie nauczanie prowadzone jest na odległość, od ponad 40 lat oferującego zdalne kursy językowe w środowisku mniejszości, a mianowicie we francuskojęzycznej prowincji, która znajduje się w anglojęzycznej Ameryce Północnej. Przedstawiamy wyzwania stawiane przez nauczanie asynchroniczne w systemie zdalnym oraz różne rozwiązania mające na celu obejście lub przezwyciężenie tych wyzwań.
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The COVID-19 pandemic forced countless colleges and universities worldwide to switch to online teaching, and many language instructors delivered their course content the usual way but remotely. This synchronous solution was motivated by the urgency of the situation but also by the common belief that languages cannot be learned efficiently without the simultaneous presence of the teacher and other learners. However, new technologies at our disposal increasingly dispel this myth by rendering asynchronous language teaching very efficient despite a few challenges. This paper presents data from Université TÉLUQ, the world's oldest French-speaking distance university, offering remote language courses for more than 40 years in a minority setting, namely a French-speaking province in English-speaking North America. We present challenges posed by teaching asynchronously in remote settings and various solutions to circumvent or overcome these challenges.
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Affective variables, parental involvement and competence among South Korean high school learners of English

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Morris A., Lafontaine M., Pichette F., de Serres L.
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
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2013
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vol. 3
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issue 1
13-45
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This study investigated the relationships between various affective variables and two measures of competence in English, for 190 South Korean high school students. A 55-item questionnaire was used to measure attitudes (Attitudes toward English Speakers and their Communities and Attitudes toward the English-speaking Culture), motivation (Motivational Intensity, Desire to Learn and Attitudes toward the Learning of English), amotivation, parental involvement (Active Parental Encouragement, Passive Parental Encouragement and Parental Pressure), parental disinterest and students’ competence in L2 (English- EXAM and English-SELF). Pearson product-moment coefficients indicate that active and passive forms of parental encouragement correlate with motivationto learn, as conceptualized by Gardner (1985, 2010), as well as with parental pressure, which suggests that South Korean students report undergoing forms of pressure when their parents actively or passively encourage them. Furthermore, the obtained correlations of the active and passive forms of encouragement with different variables suggest that the two forms represent two distinct concepts. While parental disinterest correlated negatively with motivational variables, parental pressure correlated only with motivational intensity, and only weakly. Therefore, parental pressure seems not to interact significantly with participants’ attitudes, motivation and competence. Multiple linear regression analyses confirm the importance of motivation to learn for students' L2 competence.
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The handling of missing binary data in language research

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Pichette F., Beland S., Jolani S., Leśniewska J.
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
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2015
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vol. 5
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issue 1
153-169
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Researchers are frequently confronted with unanswered questions or items on their questionnaires and tests, due to factors such as item difficulty, lack of testing time, or participant distraction. This paper first presents results from a poll confirming previous claims (Rietveld & van Hout, 2006; Schafer & Gra- ham, 2002) that data replacement and deletion methods are common in research. Language researchers declared that when faced with missing answers of the yes/no type (that translate into zero or one in data tables), the three most common solutions they adopt are to exclude the participant’s data from the analyses, to leave the square empty, or to fill in with zero, as for an incorrect answer. This study then examines the impact on Cronbach’s α of five types of data insertion, using simulated and actual data with various numbers of participants and missing percentages. Our analyses indicate that the three most common methods we identified among language researchers are the ones with the greatest impact  n Cronbach's α coefficients; in other words, they are the least desirable solutions to the missing data problem. On the basis of our results, we make recommendations for language researchers concerning the best way to deal with missing data. Given that none of the most common simple methods works properly, we suggest that the missing data be replaced either by the item’s mean or by the participants’ overall mean to provide a better, more accurate image of the instrument’s internal consistency.
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