Abstract
Psychological factors involved in learning a second language (L2) present a considerable interest for applied linguistics researchers and language educators. This study adopted the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) framework to examine links between L2 motivation, willingness to communicate in the target language (L2WTC), classroom environment (L2CE) and psychological shyness of Chinese learners of English. The study posited that L2 motivation would be positively associated with L2WTC and that L2CE would mediate this relationship. It was further proposed that the L2MSS → L2CE → L2WTC nexus would be moderated by the language learners’ psychological shyness. Data were collected from 846 (N = 846) learners of English as a foreign language in three large state universities in China and analysed using rigorous statistical methods. The findings indicated that L2MSS was positively associated with L2WTC and that L2CE mediated the association between the two constructs. Furthermore, psychological shyness moderated the first and the second links in the L2MSS → L2CE → L2WTC nexus. These findings have notable pedagogical implications, such as the need to help students generate a positive self-image as an L2 user, to provide encouragement to the shy students and to create an inclusive and supportive classroom environment.
Funding source: Education Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
Award Identifier / Grant number: 2020JGZ152
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- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Editorial 2022
- Research Articles
- Perceptual similarity is not all: online perception of English coda stops by Korean listeners
- How Russian speakers express evolution in Pokémon names: an experimental study with nonce words
- Individual differences in simultaneous perceptual compensation for coarticulatory and lexical cues
- Phonetic change over the career: a case study
- Quantifying the importance of morphomic structure, semantic values, and frequency of use in Romance stem alternations
- The syntax of the diminutive morpheme -aaj in Egyptian Arabic, Syrian Arabic, and Jordanian Arabic
- Length, position, and functions of inter-clausal Chinese–English code-switching in a bilingual novel
- Discourse connectives and their arguments: an experiment on anaphoricity in German
- Modeling (im)precision in context
- The landscape of non-canonical ‘only’ in German
- Introducing Construction Semantics (CxS): a frame-semantic extension of Construction Grammar and constructicography
- Defining numeral classifiers and identifying classifier languages of the world
- A multivariate analysis of causative do and causative make in Middle English
- Unstressed versus stressed German additive auch – what determines a speaker’s choice?
- Metaphors are embodied otherwise they would not be metaphors
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- Accounting for the relationship between lexical prevalence and acquisition with Bayesian networks and population dynamics
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