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Tze, Virginia M. C.; Klassen, Robert M.; Daniels, Lia M.; Li, Johnson C.-H.; Zhang, Xiao – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2013
This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Learning-Related Boredom Scale (LRBS) from the Academic Emotions Questionnaire (AEQ; Pekrun, Goetz, & Perry, 2005; Pekrun, Goetz, Titz, & Perry, 2002) in a sample of 405 university students from Canada and China. Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the factor…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Psychometrics, Foreign Countries, Factor Analysis
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Ruan, Zhoulin – Language Awareness, 2014
This paper reports on an investigation into metacognitive awareness of Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) student writers, under a threefold metacognition framework--person, task, and strategy variables, and within the broader domain of cognitive writing theories. Data were collected in a Chinese tertiary English language teaching (ELT)…
Descriptors: Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies
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Ning, Huiping; Hornby, Garry – Educational Review, 2014
This study was aimed at investigating the impact of cooperative learning on the motivation of tertiary English learners. Participants were from two randomly assigned classes at a university in the north of China. A pre-test-post-test control group design was employed to compare the impact of the cooperative learning approach with that of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Student Motivation
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Yu, Baohua; Downing, Kevin – Educational Studies, 2012
This study examined the influence of integrative motivation, instrumental motivation and second language (L2) proficiency on socio-cultural/academic adaptation in a sample of two groups of international students studying Chinese in China. Results revealed that the non-Asian student group reported higher levels of integrative motivation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Motivation, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Norvilitis, Jill M.; Reid, Howard M.; Ling, Sun; Chen, Sisi – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2013
Data were analyzed from 178 American and 153 Chinese college students who participated in a study examining motivation to attend college. Students in the two countries reported similar motivations for attending college, with career and personal reasons being most important and helping family least important. Also, the study assessed the influence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, College Students, Cross Cultural Studies
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Butler, Yuko Goto – Research Papers in Education, 2015
Schools in China and elsewhere are starting to teach English as a second language or foreign language (FL) to students at increasingly earlier ages. Although young learners (YLs), due to their developmental stage, are likely to be particularly susceptible to the influence of parents, parents' roles in YLs' motivation to learn English as an FL is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, English (Second Language), English Language Learners
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Zhu, Chang; Zhang, Li-Fang – Educational Psychology, 2011
This research aims to understand university students' thinking styles and the relationship with their views of creativity. The Thinking Styles Inventory-Revised II was used to measure 13 thinking styles as defined in Sternberg's theory of mental self-government and the Conceptions of Creativity Scales was used to inquire students' views about the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Cognitive Style, Educational Innovation, College Students
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Wong, Ruth M. H. – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
Teachers employ various strategies aimed at enhancing student motivation, yet there is scant empirical evidence to support their effectiveness. Based on an investigation of 30 EFL classroom observations involving 10 teachers and more than 900 learners (including 90 learners at different levels of English proficiency who completed questionnaires),…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Asians
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Shi, Jing – English Language Teaching, 2013
The Comprehensive English Course (CEC) plays a vital role in English language learning for college students in China. However, students' motivation for this course is low due to the fact that they are bored with the instructivist-based teaching environment. This paper first reviews the theories of Constructivism, and then demonstrates how to apply…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Constructivism (Learning)
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Yan, Kun; Berliner, David C. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2011
To date, few studies have focused solely upon understanding the unique characteristics of Chinese international students in the United States. This inquiry examines what Chinese international students' demographic trends are over decades, what their motivations are for studying in the United States, what the unique features of their group…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Universities, Acculturation, Educational Environment
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Cheung, Cecilia Sin-Sze; Pomerantz, Eva M. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
This research examined the idea that children's parent-oriented motivation underlies the benefits of parents' involvement on children's engagement and ultimately achievement in school. Beginning in the fall of 7th grade, 825 American and Chinese children (mean age = 12.73 years) reported on their parents' involvement in their learning as well as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Student Relationship, Parent Participation, Student Motivation
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Trube, Mary Barbara – International Education, 2012
This paper examines the content-language integrated (CLI) second language (L2) education offered by the CCUEI Research Collaborative in China. It explores how CCUEI-developed curriculum reflects the theoretical foundations of an immersion experiment and how the research-based theoretical foundations of CLI L2 have been applied in practice. It…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
Xiao, Yangyu; Carless, David Robert – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2013
Whilst there are studies exploring students' perspectives of assessment, relatively little is known about how Chinese high school students' respond to assessment. Students' perspectives are particularly important because the power of assessment directly impacts on their motivation and attitudes towards schooling. This article explores students'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Li, Su; Li, Pengjing – English Language Teaching, 2012
Written corrective feedback (WCF) has been a long time practice in L2 writing instruction. However, in many cases, the effects are not satisfactory. There have been controversies about it both theoretically and empirically. This paper reports a multi-case study exploring individual differences that impact learners' responses to WCF. Four students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Case Studies, Error Correction
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Zhao, Lei – English Language Teaching, 2012
Motivation is one of the most important factors affecting students' performance of English learning, which is widely concerned by foreign language teachers and researchers for a long time. However, how to promote students' motivation in learning English by knowing their English learning motivation types at the initial stages and the factors that…
Descriptors: Investigations, Motivation Techniques, Influences, English (Second Language)
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