Changes in Affective Profiles of Postsecondary Students in Lower-Level Foreign Language Classes

Autor/in	Kondo-Brown, Kimi
Titel	Changes in Affective Profiles of Postsecondary Students in Lower-Level Foreign Language Classes
Quelle	In: Foreign Language Annals, 46 (2013) 1, S.122-136 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0015-718X
DOI	10.1111/flan.12013
Schlagwörter	Profiles; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Japanese; Surveys; Affective Behavior; Language Teachers; Learning Motivation; Educational Benefits; Student Attitudes; College Students; Anxiety; Self Efficacy; Longitudinal Studies; Case Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Japaner; Japanisch; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Motivation for studies; Lernmotivation; Bildungsertrag; Schülerverhalten; Collegestudent; Angst; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study
Abstract	Recent surveys and research on second language (L2)/foreign language acquisition help explain the challenges that postsecondary students in lower-level foreign language (FL) courses may experience. The present study extends this line of research by examining changes in students' affective profiles in a two-year Japanese program (n = 382) at an American university. The results indicated that students who reached the end of the program perceived more social, economical, integrative, and other value in learning Japanese than those at the beginning of the program. Results also showed that students appeared to expend significantly less effort in learning the language at the end of the program than at the beginning. This article urges FL instructors, especially those in lower-level courses, to carefully consider issues of motivation in these and other courses. (Contains 1 table, 3 figures and 5 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10