A Study on Chinese Students’ Perceptual Learning Styles, Ideal L2 Self, and L2 Motivated L2 Behavior
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Qianmei Zhang
Abstract
This study investigates Chinese elementary, middle, and high school students’ L2 perceptual learning styles, imagination, ideal L2 self, and motivated L2 behavior. A perceptual learning style and L2 learning motivation questionnaire was administered to 1,667 students from elementary to high school. Statistical results revealed that Chinese elementary, middle, and high school students were more in favor of a visual learning style in comparison to their auditory and kinesthetic learning styles. This visually oriented style was significantly correlated with their ideal L2 self and motivated L2 behavior. The sequential regression analysis results indicated that the ideal L2 self and visual learning style were the most meaningful predictors for Chinese students’ motivated L2 behavior. This study suggests that teachers need to help students create and maintain their ideal L2 self and facilitate their L2 learning motivation by providing more adequate visual teaching materials.
©2015 Walter de Gruyter, Berlin Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- An ERP Study in English Relative Clause Processing by Chinese-English Bilinguals
- An Empirical Study on the Intelligibility of English Spoken by Chinese University Students
- A Review of Empirical Studies in L2 Dynamic Assessment
- A Review of Empirical Studies in L2 Dynamic Assessment
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