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Sticking with Spanish: Reasons for Study and Motivation Maintenance in Adult Beginner Distance Language Learners

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Furnborough C., Coleman J. A.

European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning

2014

vol. 17

issue 2

40-60

This paper examines the reasons for study of adult beginner distance learners of Spanish and the relationships between those reasons and motivation maintenance. A survey of 563 Open University UK students found motivational orientations distinct from those of young people in earlier studies. Adult learners who maintained their motivation also demonstrated a greater number of reasons for study. Their motivation embraced intrinsic and extrinsic, integrative and instrumental orientations, short-term and long-term ambitions, and an L2 self both ideal and realistically attainable. During their course module they focused more consistently than others on the language skills they had targeted, and expressed increased enjoyment of the learning experience. This study suggests that achieving ‘softer’ short-term goals encourages persistence towards longer-term goals which reflect the ideal L2 self.

Orientacje motywacyjne studentów w uczeniu się a retrospektywna ocena postaw rodzicielskich. Rola płci rodzica i respondenta

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Turska D., Pisarska A.

Psychologia Rozwojowa

2017

vol. 22

issue 4

55-73

The starting point for this study was the pattern of relations between the motivational orientations for learning and retrospective assessment of parental attitudes, commonly known in educational psychology. The author’s own independent research programme founded on a critical review of literature was aimed at explaining how these relations differ according to the gender of the parent and the respondent. The author of the study examined 540 male and female students. The outcomes allowed not only for presenting the results of an in-depth analysis of the role that fathers play in children’s education (sons’ in particular) but also for showing how the perceived attitude adopted by autonomous mothers affects the process of shaping the ‘motivational profile’ of a daughter. Moreover, the study also identified parental attitudes typical of the perceiving respondents of either gender and provided insight into the motivational result of heterogeneous types of parents’ involvement within a single dimension, as perceived by both daughters and sons.

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Sticking with Spanish: Reasons for Study and Motivation Maintenance in Adult Beginner Distance Language Learners

Orientacje motywacyjne studentów w uczeniu się a retrospektywna ocena postaw rodzicielskich. Rola płci rodzica i respondenta