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Exploring Vietnamese first-year English-major students’ motivation: A longitudinal, mixed-methods investigation
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Hoang, Thinh Quoc. - : Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2021
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In: Theses: Doctorates and Masters (2021)
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Questioning in English as a Foreign Language University Classes
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Evaluating an educational innovation: professional development in CALL at the tertiary level in Vietnam
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An investigation of the integration of synchronous online tools to deliver task-based language teaching: the example of SpeakApps
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Examining Thai students' experiences of augmented reality technology in a university language education classroom
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Influence of phonics teaching on young EFL learners´ pronunciation
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Student engagement in postsecondary English classes in China: the teachers’ perspective
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English evolution : development and change of conversational language education policy in South Korea
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Transformative Learning in an Interculturally-Inclusive Online Community
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Investigating university lecturers' attitudes towards learner autonomy in the EFL context in Vietnam
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Professional development of English language teachers in Malang, Indonesia: Institutional and individual perspectives
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Investigating vocabulary in academic spoken English: Corpora, teachers, and learners
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Exploring an appropriation of reader-response theory for teaching and learning English literature in Vietnam
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Promoting L2 Motivation via Motivational Teaching Practice: A Mixed-Methods Study in the Turkish EFL Context
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Erdil, Zeynep. - : Digital Commons @ University of South Florida, 2016
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In: Graduate Theses and Dissertations (2016)
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The shift toward bilingualism and multilingualism in historically monolingual societies resulting from globalization has positioned second/foreign language (L2) learning research as a significant field. Extensive research in L2 motivation over decades has demonstrated motivation to be a significant determiner of L2 learning achievement and has yielded many sound L2 motivation theories and frameworks. The latest L2 motivation framework is the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) offered by Dörnyei (2005, 2009). Numerous studies have been conducted to validate this theory in different English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts (e.g., in China, Iran and Japan: (Taguchi, Magid & Papi, 2009); in Hungary: (Csizér & Kormos, 2009); in Saudi Arabia: (Al-Shehri, 2009); and in Turkey: (Thompson & Erdil-Moody, 2014). Studies have found the theory sufficiently elaborate to explain the multifaceted L2 motivation in its dynamic nature. This study utilized the theoretical framework of L2MSS to examine L2 learners’ motivation. Due to the importance of motivation in L2 learning and achievement, research focusing on EFL instructors’ use of motivation-enhancing strategies has gained significance. To fill a longstanding gap in L2 research for a unified and systematic motivational strategies framework for teachers, Dörnyei (2001) offered the Motivational Teaching Practice in the L2 Classrooms Model (MTP) – which offers various strategies that L2 teachers can use to enhance student motivation. The current study used this MTP theoretical framework to investigate L2 teachers’ motivational teaching practice. However, how the L2MSS could be integrated into the motivational teaching practice has not been adequately studied and requires further examination. Moreover, most language teacher education programs lack motivational teaching practice training for pre-service L2 teachers. Consequently, the present study aims to fill the gap in L2 research by examining a) how to promote EFL instructors’ motivational teaching practice through a training program on motivation-enhancing strategies within the L2MSS framework; b) how L2 teachers’ consistent and systematic use of motivation-enhancing strategies within this framework impact students’ motivated learning behaviors. Another way this study contributes to L2 research is by offering both quantitative and qualitative empirical data in an understudied EFL context, Turkey, concerning the relationship between motivational teaching practice and learner motivation. The study employed a mixed-methods experimental design. The researcher collected data from February 2015 to June 2015, coordinating and delivering the teacher workshops, and analyzing and interpreting the data. The data involve various sources: self-report questionnaires from L2 teachers and students, classroom observations of teachers’ motivational teaching practice and students’ motivated learning behaviors, semi-structured interviews with teachers and students, teachers’ strategy logs and reflective journals. Quantitative and qualitative data analysis procedures were employed to analyze the data. The self-report questionnaire data were analyzed via exploratory factor analyses, Cronbach’s alpha, descriptive statistics, independent and paired samples t-tests; the classroom observation data were analyzed using repeated measures ANOVA; strategy logs were analyzed using descriptive statistics; and the qualitative data via classroom observations, reflective journals and interviews were analyzed via content analysis. The researcher coded, categorized, themed, and analyzed the data separately. This study intends to a) contribute to the L2 motivation research, b) offer pedagogical recommendations for motivational teaching practice to promote learner motivation within the L2MSS framework, c) contribute to the pre-service L2 teacher training to promote motivational teaching practice. The results showed that instructors’ and students’ perceptions of instructors’ use of motivational strategies demonstrated both differences and similarities, indicating that both groups have varying perceptions in regards to instructors’ motivational teaching practice. An overall analysis of the MTP across 25 different EAP classes showed an average use of motivational strategies excluding any of the recently suggested strategies that enhance the L2 self guides (the ideal L2 self and the ought-to L2 self) of learners grounded in the L2MSS theory. The classroom observation and L2 motivation data that were collected in both experimental and control groups before and after the treatment showed that instructors who received motivational teaching workshop started using more varieties of strategies more often and in a more consistent way compared to the control group instructors who did not receive any treatment. Similarly, experimental group students in the classes where instructors used more consistent and varied motivational strategies demonstrated more motivated classroom behaviors compared to the control group students. Experimental group instructors’ reflective journals and strategy logs also indicated an increased awareness of MTP and more conscious effort in trying to vary their motivational strategy use and develop their own consistent MTP. The interviews with the experimental group instructors showed that instructors were more confident in their MTP, more conscious in their choice of motivation-enhancing strategies and lesson and material design that address learners’ ideal L2 selves. They all expressed that participating in the study including but not limited to taking the MTP workshop, implementing those strategies in their classes, continuous feedback and discussion sessions with the other experimental group instructors and the researcher, writing the reflecting journals and the strategy logs were altogether helped them to a great deal creating a “transformational experience like a wake-up call” in their teaching. Interviews with the students revealed that experimental group students were happier in their EAP class this semester compared to their previous pre-requisite EAP class because they were kept more motivated, engaged and active throughout the semester. They found their instructors as the most motivating factor on their motivation and achievement this semester.
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English as a foreign language; Ideal L2 Self; L2 motivation; L2MSS; Linguistics; Other Teacher Education and Professional Development; Teacher Education and Professional Development
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URL: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/6496
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7693&context=etd
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Extensive Reading: A study of Its Effects on Turkish EFL Learners' General Language Proficiency in an Input-Based Setting
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Second Language Reading Comprehension Strategies in Brunei Darussalam’s Primary Schools
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Pragmatic Competence in EFL Context: Suggestions in University Office Hour Discourse
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Ciftci, Hatime. - : Digital Commons @ University of South Florida, 2015
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In: Graduate Theses and Dissertations (2015)
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The Impact of the Common European Framework of Reference on Foreign Language Instruction: The Case of Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Competence
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Collaborative and Independent Writing: Japanese University English Learners' Processes, Texts and Opinions
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The Professional Legitimacy of the Taiwan-educated versus US-educated Taiwanese English Teachers
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