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Ahn, So-Yeon; Kang, Hyun-Sook – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
This study explored South Korean university students' perceptions of different English varieties and their speakers, student attitudes towards the learning of English and its varieties, and the role of these attitudinal variables in the learning of English as a foreign language. One-hundred-one students who were enrolled in four sections of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Tajeddin, Zia; Moghadam, Amir Zand – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2012
The aim of this pioneering study was to define and describe motivation for the acquisition of interlanguage pragmatic competence. Interlanguage pragmatic motivation was investigated from two perspectives: (1) general pragmatic motivation, displaying L2 learners' motivation to acquire pragmatic strategies, pragmatic routines, politeness strategies,…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Familiarity, Interlanguage, Speech Acts
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Hulur, Gizem; Wilhelm, Oliver; Schipolowski, Stefan – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
We investigated the usefulness of the Over-Claiming Questionnaire (OCQ) as a measure of cognitive abilities. In OCQs respondents are asked to rate their familiarity with items of academic or everyday knowledge (Paulhus, Harms, Bruce, & Lysy, 2003). Some items exist in reality ("reals"), and others do not ("foils"). We developed four OCQs, each…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Familiarity, Humanities, Cognitive Ability