An Ecological Exploration of Iranian English as a Foreign Language Learners' Goal-Directed Visions

Autor/inn/en	Sorayyaee, Laleh; Shirvan, Majid Elahi; Akbari, Omid
Titel	An Ecological Exploration of Iranian English as a Foreign Language Learners' Goal-Directed Visions
Quelle	In: Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 10 (2022) 1, S.81-99 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2322-1291
Schlagwörter	Goal Orientation; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Foreign Countries; Learning Motivation; Case Studies; Guidelines; Systems Approach; Undergraduate Students; Student Attitudes; Diaries; Parent Aspiration; Educational Experience; High Schools; Language Tests; Competition; English (Second Language); Iran + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Ausland; Motivation for studies; Lernmotivation; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Richtlinien; Systemischer Ansatz; Schülerverhalten; Diary; Tagebuch; Elternwille; Bildungserfahrung; High school; Oberschule; Language test; Sprachtest; Wettkampf; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache
Abstract	Recent conceptualizations of L2 motivation have regarded target language learners' goal-directed visions as the core feature of directed motivational currents; that is, a period of intense and enduring motivation in pursuit of a favorable personal vision. This study reports on a multiple-case study designed to explore the effective factors on language learners' vision generation process in the context of Iran based on the framework developed by Dörnyei and Kubanyiova (2014). Taking into account that the notions of motivation and vision are no longer seen as stable individual difference factors, but as dynamic and continuously fluctuating ones, the present study takes an ecological analytical framework towards the issue applying Bronfenbrenner's (1979, 1993) nested ecosystems model, involving four layers of context as: microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem. The participants of the study were four university students and the data were collected through semi-structured interviews, learning journals, and classroom observations during a period of six months. The results of the study revealed the existence of different eco-systemic agents and affordances in the emergence of the participants' goal-directed visions. They were parents' expectations and teachers' behavior at the microsystem, learners' background experiences at high school at the mesosystem, types of tests and materials at the exosystem and Iranians' competitive spirit at the macrosystem. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/4/11