{"title":"Exploring the role of anxiety and motivation in foreign language achievement: A structural equation modeling approach","authors":"Ebrahim Khodadady, Gholam Hassan Khajavy","doi":"10.30827/digibug.20240","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"espanolEl presente estudio tuvo dos objetivos. En primer lugar, se examino la relacion que se produce entre la ansiedad y la motivacion de estudiantes iranies de ingles como lengua extranjera. En segundo lugar, se desarrollo un modelo de exito de aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras basado en la ansiedad que provoca el aprendizaje de idiomas y la motivacion, y se comprobo mediante modelos de ecuaciones estructurales. Para lograr los objetivos se pasaron a 264 participantes una escala de ansiedad en el aula de lengua extranjera (FLCAS) y una la escala de orientacion de aprendizaje de idiomas (LLOS). Los resultados del estudio mostraron que la desmotivacion y los tipos de motivacion externa menos auto-determinados se relacionan positivamente con la ansiedad que produce el aprendizaje de un idioma. Ademas, la motivacion intrinseca y la regulacion identificada se relacionan negativamente con la ansiedad de aprender una lengua. La aplicacion del modelos de ecuaciones estructurales mostro que la ansiedad y la motivacion predicen significativamente el logro en ingles de los estudiantes de lenguas en un contexto irani. Se discuten tambien algunas implicaciones pedagogicas de los resultados EnglishThe present study had two purposes. First, the relationship between language anxiety and motivation was examined among Iranian EFL learners. Secondly, a foreign language achievement model based on language learning anxiety and motivation was developed and tested by structural equation modeling. To achieve the purposes, foreign language classroom anxiety scale (FLCAS) and language learning orientations scale (LLOS) were administered to 264 participants. The results of the study showed that amotivation and less self-determined types of external motivation are positively related to language anxiety. Also, intrinsic motivation and identified regulation were negatively related to language anxiety. The application of the structural equation modeling showed that both anxiety and motivation significantly predict the English achievement of the language learners within an Iranian context. Pedagogical implications of the results are discussed","PeriodicalId":54349,"journal":{"name":"Porta Linguarum","volume":"20 1","pages":"269-286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2013-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"101","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Porta Linguarum","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.30827/digibug.20240","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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espanolEl presente estudio tuvo dos objetivos. En primer lugar, se examino la relacion que se produce entre la ansiedad y la motivacion de estudiantes iranies de ingles como lengua extranjera. En segundo lugar, se desarrollo un modelo de exito de aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras basado en la ansiedad que provoca el aprendizaje de idiomas y la motivacion, y se comprobo mediante modelos de ecuaciones estructurales. Para lograr los objetivos se pasaron a 264 participantes una escala de ansiedad en el aula de lengua extranjera (FLCAS) y una la escala de orientacion de aprendizaje de idiomas (LLOS). Los resultados del estudio mostraron que la desmotivacion y los tipos de motivacion externa menos auto-determinados se relacionan positivamente con la ansiedad que produce el aprendizaje de un idioma. Ademas, la motivacion intrinseca y la regulacion identificada se relacionan negativamente con la ansiedad de aprender una lengua. La aplicacion del modelos de ecuaciones estructurales mostro que la ansiedad y la motivacion predicen significativamente el logro en ingles de los estudiantes de lenguas en un contexto irani. Se discuten tambien algunas implicaciones pedagogicas de los resultados EnglishThe present study had two purposes. First, the relationship between language anxiety and motivation was examined among Iranian EFL learners. Secondly, a foreign language achievement model based on language learning anxiety and motivation was developed and tested by structural equation modeling. To achieve the purposes, foreign language classroom anxiety scale (FLCAS) and language learning orientations scale (LLOS) were administered to 264 participants. The results of the study showed that amotivation and less self-determined types of external motivation are positively related to language anxiety. Also, intrinsic motivation and identified regulation were negatively related to language anxiety. The application of the structural equation modeling showed that both anxiety and motivation significantly predict the English achievement of the language learners within an Iranian context. Pedagogical implications of the results are discussed
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PORTA LINGUARUM is an international and interuniversity journal that specialises in foreign language didactics. Its aims to publish empirical studies, critical revisions, and theoretical models that relate to the many factors that influence the FL teaching and learning:
- The social and school context: the family’s social and cultural influence as well as the student’s mother language and its influence on the L2 learning process, etc.
- The students: their personal characteristics (age, gender, personality traits, etc.) as well as their attitudes, motivation, cognitive styles, etc.
- The FL teacher: the teacher’s mental representations, attitudes, motivation, individual characteristics, teaching methods, etc.
- Learning conditions and the learning process, variables that influence the teaching and learning processes in the classroom: efficiency of teaching strategies, teaching methods and techniques, second language acquisition processes, students and teachers interaction, effect of teaching resources and materials, etc.
- Learning outcomes: evaluation of procedures as well as the evaluation of the students’ communicative competence at different academic levels, etc.