scholarly journals Personality Facets, Writing Strategy Use, and Writing Performance of College Students Learning English as a Foreign Language

SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824401986148
Author(s):  
Tung-hsien He
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Strategy Use ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Writing Performance ◽  
Writing Strategy ◽  
Personality Facets ◽  
Learning English

This study applied the structural equation modeling (SEM) technique to explore the predictive relations among personality facets, writing strategy use, and writing performance of college students learning English as a foreign language (EFL). In total, 201 participants composed an argument-based essay, before being surveyed using two self-report instruments: the Personality Facet Scale (PFS), which measured 10 facets within the framework of the Five-Factor Model (FFM), and the Writing Strategy Scale (WSS) that assessed six types of strategy. The established structural model indicated the following: (a) Five types of strategy and six facets predicted writing performance, (b) nine facets predicted the use of at least one type of strategy, either positively or negatively, and (c) the five types of strategy mediated the relations between the nine facets and writing performance. As suggested, adding and treating strategy use as a mediator could help elaborate and elucidate the facet–performance relations in the EFL writing context.

scholarly journals The Influence of L2 English Acquisition of the Request Speech Act on Persian Preschool Children

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Firooz Sadighi ◽  
Shahrzad Chahardahcherik ◽  
Maryam Delfariyan ◽  
Fariba Feyzbar
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Production ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
First Language ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Strategy Use ◽  
Instructional Effects ◽  
Request Strategies ◽  
Learning English

In Iran the age of learning English as a foreign language is decreasing yearly. It is obvious that learning English at a very early age is a most appropriate time to start. The investigation in this study is focused on the speech act of request. Instructional effects of learning request strategies are assessed in preschoolers who received instruction to find out whether the exposure to the foreign language learning enhances the development of request strategy use and brings about changes in their first language strategy use features. The data were collected from 10 preschool Iranian learners of English as a foreign language. The participants of the study took a two-semester speaking course in an academic setting in Iran. The study had a pretest and posttest design in which 10 conversations were used including polite request strategies of English to analyze instructional effects on the learners’ first language after the posttest, by comparing and measuring the backward transfer against the pretest results. The oral task was in the form of role plays which were also utilized for communicative practice with the learners. The data were rated for the extent of a foreign language effect on the first language by experienced tutors and linguistic analyses were done to identify the foreign language components of request strategies features in the first language production. Results showed that frequent use of English request strategy features in the first language was an indication of L2 students’ beneficial experience in their L1.

scholarly journals Writing performance in EFL at a college level using peer editing

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-95
Author(s):  
Silvia Elizabeth Cárdenas Sánchez ◽  
◽  
Ximena Elizabeth Naranjo Lozada ◽  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
College Level ◽  
Writing Performance ◽  
Peer Editing ◽  
Universal Language ◽  
Writing Skill

Today, people are learning more and more languages for different reasons. To learn a language includes the development of all the skills in order to comprehend oral and written material. English, which is a universal language, is one of those languages, and it is used in different fields to promote communication. Thus, this paper focuses on one of the most important skills, which is writing. In a setting where English is taught as a Foreign Language (EFL), it is essential to learn how to write correctly following the language standards. With this in mind, the following research is framed in a context where college students developed the writing skill through paragraphs and peer correction. Students were instructed in different writing topics and peer correction.

Associations of Childhood Maltreatment and Attachment Styles with Romantic Breakup Grief Severity: The Role of Emotional Suppression

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052199743
Author(s):  
Rasoul Heshmati ◽  
Mehdi Zemestani ◽  
Anka Vujanovic
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Childhood Maltreatment ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Attachment Anxiety ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Emotional Suppression ◽  
Romantic Breakup

Childhood maltreatment (CM) and insecure attachment styles may partly explain grief severity following romantic breakup. Empirical studies examining the factors that could possibly explain this association, however, remain sparse. The present study tested whether the relations among CM, attachment styles, and romantic breakup grief severity could be explained by emotional suppression in Iranian college students. In a cross-sectional study, 239 Iranian college students (ages 18–45; M = 24.11, SD = 15.29; 50.6% women) with a recent romantic breakup experience were recruited from University of Tabriz. Participants completed a diagnostic interview and self-report battery, including the Persian version of the Child Abuse Self-Reported Scale, Revised Adult Attachment Scale, Romantic Breakup Grief Inventory, and Weinberger Adjustment Inventory. Structural equation modeling was used to empirically explore the relations among variables. Results indicated that those who reported higher levels of CM also reported higher levels of romantic breakup grief. Attachment closeness showed a significant negative and direct effect on romantic breakup grief severity. However, attachment anxiety was positively associated with greater levels of romantic breakup grief. Bootstrapping results showed that CM might affect romantic breakup grief severity via emotional suppression. Furthermore, attachment closeness and attachment anxiety exerted indirect effects on romantic breakup grief severity through emotional suppression. Clinical and empirical implications are discussed.

scholarly journals Exploring the Relationship Between Foreign Language Anxiety, Gender, Years of Learning English and Learners’ Oral English Achievement Amongst Chinese College Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Hualan Tan ◽  
Zhilong Xie
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
English Achievement ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Learning English

English serves as a bridge of communication for the people from all over the world as it plays an increasingly crucial role in the process of globalization. In accordance with English curriculum standards issued by the Ministry of Education in 2011, the ultimate goal of English language discipline is to communicate. But over these years, China’s English education has been difficult to get out of the dilemma of “Dumb English”. When facing the real oral communication situations, students are still too nervous to speak with a great deal of fluency and accuracy. Therefore, the present study aims to explore the relationship between English language anxiety, gender, years of English learning and final oral English achievement by inviting 41 English major freshmen of foreign language departments of Nanchang Business College. For this purpose, this study adopts a reliable Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale developed by Horwitz and Cope (1986) to measure students’ anxiety. The results reveal that anxiety levels between males and females are similar; there is also no significant difference among years of learning English; however, a significantly negative correlation between college students’ foreign language anxiety and their oral English learning achievement was found.

scholarly journals A Moderated Mediation Model of Expectancy-Value Interactions, Engagement, and Foreign Language Performance

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824402110591
Author(s):  
Yajun Wu ◽  
Xia Kang
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Behavioral Engagement ◽  
Expectancy Value ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Self Report Data

Based on the Expectancy-Value Theory (EVT), this study examined the interactive relation between expectancy of success and attainment value, and how they predicate students’ Foreign Language (FL) performance via behavioral engagement. Self-report data were collected from 522 Chinese non-English majors aged 18 to 22 years in their sophomore year. Results of structural equation modeling indicated that expectancy of success and attainment value interacted in predicting Chinese sophomores’ FL performance. The expectancy of success had both direct and indirect effects on FL performance when investigating the mediating role of behavioral engagement. Both theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

A Case Study of Formation of Mandarin-English College Students’ Metacognition

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 22802291
Author(s):  
Wei Zhou
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Strategy Use ◽  
Metacognitive Strategy ◽  
English Major

The present study provides both quantitative and qualitative analysis of the formation of language learners’ metacognition as the Mandarin-English college students in China. I hypothesized that language learning will be promoted by intervention of course teaching if students are trained to become more aware of and skillful at the use of metacognition strategies and other learning strategies that can be used in the language learning process. 3 of 115 freshmen from department of foreign language in Southwest Petroleum University are chosen to be subjects of the study. The result carries out to examine the intervention of strategy course on the formation of metacognition of English major freshmen in their language learning. The conclusions obtained from pre-interviews and post-interview have indicated that the subjects’ metacognition knowledge and metacognitive strategy use in language learning are conflicting. After the course, the metacognition of the subjects increased.

Native language literacy and phonological memory as prerequisites for learning English as a foreign language

1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIA DUFVA ◽  
MARINUS J. M. VOETEN
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Native Language ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Phonological Memory ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Learning English

The aim of this study was to examine, with a longitudinal study design, the effects of phonological memory and native language (NL) literacy acquisition on learning English as a foreign language (FL). The subjects were 160 Finnish school children, who were 7-year-old first graders at the beginning of the study. Measures in the first grade were NL word recognition and listening comprehension; in the second grade, word recognition, reading comprehension, and phonological memory; and in the third grade, FL skills. The main result from the structural equation modeling was that both NL literacy and phonological memory have positive effects on FL learning. These skills explained 58% of the variance in English proficiency. Therefore, proficiency in NL literacy skills is highly significant for FL learning, although the orthographic regularity varied a lot (Finnish vs. English). On the basis of the results, it can be concluded that one way to promote FL learning is by diagnosing NL literacy skills early on and by providing training in NL literacy for at-risk children. In addition, the significant role of phonological memory in FL learning suggests that training in the FL phonology may enhance competence in the foreign language.

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