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Ilona Kocvarová; Jan Kalenda; Jitka Vaculíková; Zuzana Neupauer; Ruženka Šimonji Cernak; Anna Wloch – Higher Education Quarterly, 2024
The article focuses on adaptation and validation of the Academic Motivation Scale questionnaire (AMS-28) in higher education in four Eastern European countries: Czechia, Slovakia, Serbia, and Poland. The research was conducted with a total of 1711 respondents. We examined the construct validity of AMS-28 including measurement invariance and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Measures (Individuals), Validity
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Martin Howard; Leigh Oakes – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study responds to calls for more research on motivations for learning languages other than English (LOTEs) in the new era dominated by global English. In particular, it focuses on the role of societal contextual factors surrounding the status of English and the status of the LOTE as an L2/L3, as factors which may offer a more nuanced…
Descriptors: French, Cross Cultural Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Esther T. Canrinus; Pawel Scheffler; Karolina Baranowska – SAGE Open, 2024
This article examines secondary school learners' motivation to learn English as a foreign language (EFL) in relation to two contextual factors: school type and school location. Data were collected from 352 Polish learners who attended English instruction in general and technical secondary schools in a large city and a small town in western Poland.…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Katarzyna Gajda – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2024
The integration of mobile technology in language education represents notable progress, providing a versatile tool for learners of different ages to acquire a language. The poster will focus on research evaluating the efficacy of the Duolingo mobile app in augmenting Russian language proficiency for A1 and B1 level students at the University of…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Computer Software, Computer Assisted Instruction