Abstract
The correlation between motivational beliefs and foreign language learning has been widely explored. However, there has been little investigation of this link among learners with different foreign language levels. Based on expectancy-value theory (EVT), this research examined the association between motivational beliefs and English achievement of 11,854 Chinese secondary students. Data were collected using students’ self-reported English self-efficacy, intrinsic value, utility value, and English achievement test. The results of ANOVA showed that self-efficacy, intrinsic value, and utility value of high-achieving English learners were significantly higher than that of medium-achieving ones, followed by low-achieving ones. Multiple regression analysis demonstrated that after controlling for socioeconomic status and gender, intrinsic value was most correlated with high- and medium-achieving learners’ English achievement, followed by self-efficacy, while utility value was not significantly associated with English achievement of the two groups. In addition, utility value was most strongly related with low-achieving learners’ English achievement, followed by intrinsic value, but self-efficacy was not positively linked with their English achievement. These findings not only extend EVT and validate the situative perspective of motivation research, but also have practical implications for foreign language education.
Funding source: National Research for Educational Examination in China
Award Identifier / Grant number: GJK2021011
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Research funding: This work was supported by National Research for Educational Examination in China under the grant no. GJK2021011.
F1 I can understand American TV series (all in English without Chinese subtitles).
F2 I can retell in English what I have read.
F3 I can send messages on the Internet in English.
F4 I can read English messages on the Internet.
F5 I can write e-mails in English.
F6 I can read English short stories.
F7 I can understand English songs.
F8 I can tell a short story in English.
F9 I like to read English books.
F10 I like English class very much.
F11 When I do English exercises, I often feel very happy.
F12 I’m very interested in English.
F13 I learn English in order to get a good job in the future.
F14 I learn English in order to be admitted to a good school.
F15 I learn English because it is very helpful for my further learning.
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- Understanding the Usefulness of E-Portfolios: Linking Artefacts, Reflection, and Validation
- Syntactic prediction in L2 learners: evidence from English disjunction processing
- The cognitive construction-grammar approach to teaching the Chinese Ba construction in a foreign language classroom
- The predictive roles of enjoyment, anxiety, willingness to communicate on students’ performance in English public speaking classes
- Speaking proficiency development in EFL classrooms: measuring the differential effect of TBLT and PPP teaching approaches
- L2 textbook input and L2 written production: a case of Korean locative postposition–verb construction
- What does the processing of chunks by learners of Chinese tell us? An acceptability judgment investigation
- Comparative analysis of written corrective feedback strategies: a linear growth modeling approach
- Enjoyment in language teaching: a study into EFL teachers’ subjectivities
- Students’ attitude and motivation towards concept mapping-based prewriting strategies
- Pronunciation pedagogy in English as a foreign language teacher education programs in Vietnam
- The role of language aptitude probed within extensive instruction experience: morphosyntactic knowledge of advanced users of L2 English
- The impact of different glossing conditions on the learning of EFL single words and collocations in reading
- Patterns of motivational beliefs among high-, medium-, and low-achieving English learners in China
- The effect of linguistic choices in note-taking on academic listening performance: a pedagogical translanguaging perspective
- A latent profile analysis of Chinese EFL learners’ enjoyment and anxiety in reading and writing: associations with imaginative capacity and story continuation writing performance
- Effects of monolingual and bilingual subtitles on L2 vocabulary acquisition
- Task complexity, task repetition, and L2 writing complexity: exploring interactions in the TBLT domain
- Expansion of verb-argument construction repertoires in L2 English writing
- Immediate versus delayed prompts, field dependence and independence cognitive style and L2 development
- Aural vocabulary, orthographic vocabulary, and listening comprehension
- The use of metadiscourse by secondary-level Chinese learners of English in examination scripts: insights from a corpus-based study
- Scoping review of research methodologies across language studies with deaf and hard-of-hearing multilingual learners
- Exploring immediate and prolonged effects of collaborative writing on young learners’ texts: L2 versus FL
- Discrepancy in prosodic disambiguation strategies between Chinese EFL learners and native English speakers
- Exploring the state of research on motivation in second language learning: a review and a reliability generalization meta-analysis
- Japanese complaint responses in textbook dialogues and ordinary conversations: learning objects to expand interactional repertoires
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Consolidating EFL content and vocabulary learning via interactive reading
- Understanding salient trajectories and emerging profiles in the development of Chinese learners’ motivation: a growth mixture modeling approach
- Multilingual pedagogies in first versus foreign language contexts: a cross-country study of language teachers
- Classroom assessment and learning motivation: insights from secondary school EFL classrooms
- Interculturality and Islam in Indonesia’s high-school EFL classrooms
- Collaborative writing in an EFL secondary setting: the role of task complexity
- Spanish heritage speakers’ processing of lexical stress
- Effectiveness of second language collocation instruction: a meta-analysis
- Understanding the Usefulness of E-Portfolios: Linking Artefacts, Reflection, and Validation
- Syntactic prediction in L2 learners: evidence from English disjunction processing
- The cognitive construction-grammar approach to teaching the Chinese Ba construction in a foreign language classroom
- The predictive roles of enjoyment, anxiety, willingness to communicate on students’ performance in English public speaking classes
- Speaking proficiency development in EFL classrooms: measuring the differential effect of TBLT and PPP teaching approaches
- L2 textbook input and L2 written production: a case of Korean locative postposition–verb construction
- What does the processing of chunks by learners of Chinese tell us? An acceptability judgment investigation
- Comparative analysis of written corrective feedback strategies: a linear growth modeling approach
- Enjoyment in language teaching: a study into EFL teachers’ subjectivities
- Students’ attitude and motivation towards concept mapping-based prewriting strategies
- Pronunciation pedagogy in English as a foreign language teacher education programs in Vietnam
- The role of language aptitude probed within extensive instruction experience: morphosyntactic knowledge of advanced users of L2 English
- The impact of different glossing conditions on the learning of EFL single words and collocations in reading
- Patterns of motivational beliefs among high-, medium-, and low-achieving English learners in China
- The effect of linguistic choices in note-taking on academic listening performance: a pedagogical translanguaging perspective
- A latent profile analysis of Chinese EFL learners’ enjoyment and anxiety in reading and writing: associations with imaginative capacity and story continuation writing performance
- Effects of monolingual and bilingual subtitles on L2 vocabulary acquisition
- Task complexity, task repetition, and L2 writing complexity: exploring interactions in the TBLT domain
- Expansion of verb-argument construction repertoires in L2 English writing
- Immediate versus delayed prompts, field dependence and independence cognitive style and L2 development
- Aural vocabulary, orthographic vocabulary, and listening comprehension
- The use of metadiscourse by secondary-level Chinese learners of English in examination scripts: insights from a corpus-based study
- Scoping review of research methodologies across language studies with deaf and hard-of-hearing multilingual learners
- Exploring immediate and prolonged effects of collaborative writing on young learners’ texts: L2 versus FL
- Discrepancy in prosodic disambiguation strategies between Chinese EFL learners and native English speakers
- Exploring the state of research on motivation in second language learning: a review and a reliability generalization meta-analysis
- Japanese complaint responses in textbook dialogues and ordinary conversations: learning objects to expand interactional repertoires