ERIC Number: EJ1400182
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-1056-7879
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Analyzing Lifelong Learning Tendency in Language Classrooms, Thailand
Wei, Xiaoxia; Weerasawainon, Aeksing
International Journal of Educational Reform, v33 n1 p62-80 2024
Being able to use a foreign language to communicate will increase an individual's opportunities of employment and personal growth, which implies the significance of adopting a lifelong learning approach to language learning. This study was conducted to explore language learners' lifelong learning tendency in general and the key factors affecting this tendency in a humanities and language division in an international college in Thailand. By using stratified random sampling strategies, 383 full-time language learners participated in this study. The survey questionnaire was designed based upon the Lifelong Learning Tendency Scale developed by Coskun and Demirel (2010). The scale contained four dimensions with 27 statements: motivation (6), perseverance (6), self-regulation (6), and curiosity (9) with Cronbach alpha of 0.89 from the pilot study results (n = 50). After performing statistical analyses (T-test, analysis of variance, and multiple linear regression) to the data, it was found that students in the Thai context held a comparatively high level of inclination for lifelong learning. Among the selected demographic variables, only the year of learning at college was found to correlate with the lifelong learning tendency.
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Humanities, Measures (Individuals), Learning Motivation, Persistence, Metacognition, Pilot Projects, Student Characteristics, International Education, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Thailand
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