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Revisiting students’ foreign language learning demotivation: From concepts to themes [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Demotivation is a common psychological phenomenon in foreign language learning. Having a good understanding of learners’ foreign language learning demotivation is conducive to enriching the fruits of psychological research on foreign language learning ...
Lixiang Gao, Honggang Liu
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Academic jealousy, attitudes, and motivation in relation to foreign language learning effort: a structural equation modeling approach [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionAs the academic landscape of the 21st century has become increasingly competitive, emotion-related processes have attracted growing attention as potential influences on learners’ engagement in foreign language study.
Burak Ayçiçek, Şenol Orakci
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Executive Functions and Foreign Language Learning. [PDF]
Pediatr Rep, 2022 Executive functions (EFs) serve as an umbrella term to describe a set of higher-order cognitive abilities that include working memory, inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, planning, reasoning, and problem-solving. Various studies suggest that foreign language learning likely promotes executive functions, but others suggest that executive ...
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A Passage into Ayn al-Quzat Hamdani's Translations in Tamhidat [PDF]
Literary Arts, 2021 In recent years, by the efforts of scholars such as Maria Tymoczko, translation studies have started reacting to Euro-centrism and exclusiveness. The movement stresses the necessity for the internationalization of translation theory and the importance of
Azizollah Dabaghi Varnosfadrani +1 more
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Analyzing EFL learners’ demotivating factors in blended learning context
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 In second language and foreign language learning, demotivation in learning is a common occurrence. Almost all previous studies on learners’ demotivation focused on traditional classroom learning environment rather than blended learning setting.
Wenjing Zhou +3 more
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Gamification into the design of the e-3D online course
Frontiers in Education, 2023 Research in the fields of Education and Applied Linguistics points to the growth of studies on digital games and gamification in Brazil. On the other hand, studies that discuss digital teaching material do not provide guidelines on how to implement ...
Susana Cristina dos Reis +3 more
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Gratitude in Foreign Language Learning
Arab World English Journal, 2022 Studies on positive emotions in language learning have increased over the years. However, gratitude, a moral virtue, which may have a novel effect in learning a foreign language, remains underexplored in applied linguistics. This paper aims to know the antecedents of gratitude and its constructs in English as a foreign language context.
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Creative thinking as methodical category of foreign language learning [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 This article is devoted to the development and improvement of the creative thinking approach of foreign language learning, namely speaking process. In that sense, the authors of the given article consider creative thinking as method and technique of ...
Litvinov Aleksandr Victorovich +1 more
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Attentional Competition and Semantic Integration in Low- and High-Span Readers
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The goal of the current study is to investigate the effects of the distractive textual information on the activation of predictive inference online, and how the readers with high or low working memory capacity (WMC) differ in their online activation and ...
Connie Qun Guan +7 more
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Learning Chinese as a foreign language: An introduction
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023 Abstract In this introductory paper, we first present the background of the present special issue dedicated to Willis Edmondson. We first point out why Edmondson provided a ground‐breaking contribution to the field of applied linguistics and why it is particularly timely to edit a special issue centering on his framework.
House, Juliane, Kádár, Dániel Z.
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