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Reframing the L2 learning experience as narrative reconstructions of classroom learning

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Hiver P., Obando G., Sang Y., Tahmouresi S., Zhou A., Zhou Y.
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
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2019
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vol. 9
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issue 1
83-116
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In this study we investigate the situated and dynamic nature of the L2 learning experience through a newly-purposed instrument called the Language Learning Story Interview, adapted from McAdams’ life story interview (2007). Using critical case sampling, data were collected from an equal number of learners of various L2s (e.g., Arabic, English, Mandarin, Spanish) and analyzed using qualitative comparative analysis (Rihoux & Ragin, 2009). Through our data analysis, we demonstrate how language learners construct overarching narratives of the L2 learning experience and what the characteristic features and components that make up these narratives are. Our results provide evidence for prototypical nuclear scenes (McAdams et al., 2004) as well as core specifications and parameters of learners’ narrative accounts of the L2 learning experience. We discuss how these shape motivation and language learning behavior.
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Creative writing for publication: An action research study of motivation, engagement, and language development in Argentinian secondary schools

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Banegas D. L., Lowe R. J.
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
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2021
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vol. 11
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issue 3
401-421
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There has been much research on the connections between second language (L2) writing and learner motivation. However, few studies have focused on contexts in which L2 learning is mandatory, rather than elective. This technical action research-based study evaluated a project in which teenage learners in Argentina were engaged in creative writing tasks, with the goal of including their final written pieces in a formal publication. Through focus group interviews and group discussions, it was found that the project had increased the motivation not only of the learners, but also of the teachers. Further, the study highlights the importance of making such writing tasks student-centered, and calls attention to the role played by the teachers in motivating and engaging students. The study suggests that effort should be made to develop more initiatives in formal education settings in order to motivate and engage learners involved in mandatory language study.
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A study of retrospective and concurrent foreign language learning experiences: A comparative interview study in Hungary

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Csizér K., Kálmán C.
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
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2019
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vol. 9
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issue 1
225-246
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Despite the fact that the influence of learning experiences on foreign language learning motivation has been widely acknowledged and emphasised, there are hardly any studies concentrating on these learning experiences. Hence, the aim of this study is to map the language learning experiences of former and current language learners in order to provide a detailed account of the possible components of the foreign language learning experience. Data were collected with the help of a qualitative interview schedule involving 22 language learners in two subsamples. Ten participants are English language teachers as former foreign language learners, while 12 students, current learners of English, have also been recruited. The most important result of our study is that foreign language learning experience seems to be a complex construct including immediate and present aspects as well as self-related components and attributions. Language learning success, the teacher’s personality, contact experiences, as well as attitudes towards the L2 seem to stand out as important components for both groups of learners. Apart from discussing the differences and similarities between retrospective and concurrent experiences, we will provide pedagogical and research-related implications as well.
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The L2 motivational self system: A meta-analysis

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Al-Hoorie A. H.
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
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2018
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vol. 8
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issue 4
721-754
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This article reports the first meta-analysis of the L2 motivational self system (Dörnyei, 2005, 2009). A total of 32 research reports, involving 39 unique samples and 32,078 language learners, were meta-analyzed. The results showed that the three components of the L2 motivational self system (the ideal L2 self, the ought-to L2 self, and the L2 learning experience) were significant predictors of subjective intended effort (rs = .61, .38, and .41, respectively), though weaker predictors of objective measures of achievement (rs = .20, -.05, and .17). Substantial heterogeneity was also observed in most of these correlations. The results also suggest that the strong correlation between the L2 learning experience and intended effort reported in the literature is, due to substantial wording overlap, partly an artifact of lack of discriminant validity between these two scales. Implications of these results and directions for future research are discussed.
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A Study of Chinese University English Majors’ L2 Motivational Self

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Liu M.
Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition
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2020
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vol. 6
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issue 2
67-85
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Als eine bedeutende affektive Variable hat die Motivation immer die Aufmerksamkeit der Forscher des Lernprozesses einer Zweit-/Fremdsprache (SL/FL) auf sich gezogen und spielt dabei eine Schlüsselrolle, was in den bisherigen Untersuchungen nachgewiesen wurde. Angesichts der Komplexität und Dynamik verdient die Motivation dennoch Aufmerksamkeit. Angeregt durch das vor kurzem von Dörnyei (2005, 2009) vorgeschlagene „Modell der motivierenden Persönlichkeit der Zweitsprache“ untersucht diese Studie das „motivierende Ego“ von chinesischen Studierenden der englischen Philologie, indem die gemischten Forschungsansätze angewendet werden. 101 Studierende der renommierten Peking-Universität nahmen an der Umfrage teil, und 15 davon beteiligten sich auch am Interview. Die Analyse der gesammelten Informationen ergab Folgendes: 1) die Probanden waren im Allgemeinen zum Lernen hoch motiviert, hatten ihre deutlich herauskristallisierte Vision von sich selbst als künftig kompetente Verwender des Englischen, schätzten ihre bisherigen Erfahrungen mit dem Sprachenlernen positiv ein und bewerteten ziemlich zuverlässig die Mängel ihres eigenen „zweitsprachlichen Ichs“; 2) Studierende der letzten Jahre erklärten einen deutlich höheren Sprachstandard als ihre gewünschte „zweitsprachliche Identität“ und stellten eine positivere Wahrnehmung ihrer eigenen sprachlichen Erfahrung dar. Diese Schlussfolgerungen ermöglichen es, die Diskussion über pädagogische Implikationen zu entwickeln und die Richtungen für weitere Studien zu umreißen.
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As a highly important affective variable, motivation has always been a focus of research in second/foreign language (SL/FL) learning and proved to play a critical role in SL/FL learning. Even so, considering the complex and dynamic nature of SL/FL motivation, it always deserves research. Guided by the newly proposed framework of L2 Motivational Self System (Dörnyei, 2005, 2009), the present mixed-method study hence explored Chinese English majors’ L2 motivational self. One hundred and one English majors from a prestigious university in Beijing answered the questionnaire and 15 of them were interviewed in the present study. Analyses of the data revealed the following main findings: 1) the participants were generally highly motivated to learn English, had vivid images of themselves as proficient English users in the future, had positive appraisals of their L2 learning experiences, and had a moderately good perception of their ought-to L2 self, 2) senior students reported having significantly higher ideal L2 self and held more positive attitudes towards English learning experience. Based on these findings, some pedagogical implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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