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Motivation, anxiety and international posture of multiple language learners in Thailand
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This study explored motivation of Thai students who simultaneously studied English and additional L3s (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) in language specialist majors and in English-medium business majors in a Thai university, using Dörnyei’s (2005, 2009) L2 motivational self system and Ushioda’s (2009) person-in-context relational system. Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) and International Posture (IP) are also investigated in order to find the dynamic interplay between these closely linked variables. The study consists of three parts: 1) a quantitative cross-sectional study with students from year 1to year 4 (N = 356), 2) retrospective interview of 14 students who were studying different languages, and 3) longitudinal case studies of five students over three years. It sheds light on the topic of motivations of multiple language learners across languages and in different learning environments. The findings show that while the increasing importance of English threatened learners’ motivation to study other foreign languages as found in previous research (e.g., Dörnyei et al., 2002, 2006; Henry 2010, 2012), the predominance of English also encourages students to study other languages. International posture was found to link to motivation to learn foreign languages other than English, while FLA does not correlate to IP at all. For both language specialist and English-medium business students, their motivation was mainly generated by immediate need and future use of that particular language.
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Applied Linguistics and Communication (to 2020)
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URL: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40157/1/Publicversion-2015SiridetkoonPphdBBk.pdf https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40157/2/Fullversion-2015SiridetkoonPphdBBk.pdf http://vufind.lib.bbk.ac.uk/vufind/Record/542732 https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40157/
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Josei no seiteki yokubō no hatsuro ? Tanaka Kinuyo kantoku sakuhin Chibusa yo eien nare = Expressing female sexual desire : director Tanaka Kinuyo's 'The eternal breasts'
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The feminisation of agentives in French and Spanish speaking countries: a cross-linguistic and cross-continental comparison
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Language choice in expressing anger among Arab-English Londoners
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Multiculturalism and English literary history: Xu Xi’s History’s Fiction
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Gender errors in French interlanguage: the effect of initial consonant versus initial vowel of the head noun
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‘The Muslim woman activist’: solidarity across difference in the movement against the ‘War on Terror’
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British ‘Bollocks’ versus American ‘Jerk’: do native British English speakers swear more –or differently- compared to American English speakers?
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What lies bubbling beneath the surface? A longitudinal perspective on fluctuations of ideal and Ought-to L2 self among Chinese learners of English
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What next for research on plagiarism? Continuing the dialogue
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Emotion recognition ability in English among L1 and LX users of English
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Singing by speechless (Aphasic) children: Victorian medical observations
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Forced marriage and 'honour' killings in Britain: private lives, community crimes and public policy perspectives
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Variables affecting the effects of recasts on L2 pronunciation development
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The affective benefits of a pre-sessional course at the start of study abroad
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Epistemic search sequences in peer interaction in a content-based language classroom
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Negotiation as the way of engagement in intercultural and lingua franca communication: trames of reference and interculturality
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