ERIC Number: EJ1457799
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0965-8416
EISSN: EISSN-1747-7565
Language Aptitude and Its Links with Metalinguistic Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, Anxiety, and Language Maintenance in Multilingual Language Teachers
Language Awareness, v34 n1 p100-118 2025
Language teachers cannot help their students develop high levels of metalinguistic knowledge and language aptitude if they themselves are found lacking in these abilities. This article reports on a study that utilised a descriptive correlational mixed-methods research design to gather data from 89 multilingual teachers of English, Chinese, French, German, and Spanish from secondary schools regarding the relationship between their language aptitude, metalinguistic knowledge, language maintenance habits, self-efficacy, and anxiety. The findings revealed that participants' metalinguistic knowledge, anxiety, and formally acquired multilingualism positively correlated with their language aptitude. Moreover, those possessing advanced language aptitude engaged in language maintenance habits that were both quantitatively and qualitatively different from those who exhibited weaker aptitude.
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Correlation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Chinese, French, Spanish, Self Efficacy, Anxiety, Secondary School Teachers, German, Language Maintenance, Language Proficiency, Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Tests
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Uzbekistan
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