Abstract
Despite the importance of task-supported language teaching (TSLT) in developing L2 speaking and listening skills, existing literature fails to trace the changes in L2 learners’ affective responses longitudinally during this type of instruction. After collecting three waves of questionnaire data, the present study explores how 60 L2 learners’ English listening- and speaking-related motivation and self-efficacy changed during a nine-week course of instruction at a university in China. Latent growth modeling was used to analyze questionnaire data. The results show a significant increase in students’ intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy in L2 listening during task implementation in contrast to a decrease in their extrinsic L2 listening motivation in TSLT classrooms. Learners with higher English proficiency tended to have better listening self-efficacy, and changes in L2 speaking motivation and self-efficacy were not salient. Implications for teaching and learning L2 listening and speaking are also discussed.
Funding source: Chongqing Social Science Planning Project Fund
Award Identifier / Grant number: 2022NDQN70
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Research funding: This work was supported by Chongqing Social Science Planning Project Fund (2022NDQN70).
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Broadening the appliability of systemic functional linguistics
- Research Articles
- Functional linguistics in life: an embodied approach in teacher education
- Teaching citation to university students
- Patterns of interaction between experiential and interpersonal meanings in student texts in Spanish: grounds for system-based applications in an academic writing context
- System networks as a resource in L2 writing education
- Teaching Chinese grammar through International Chinese Language Education micro-lectures: negotiating mass and presence through multimodal pedagogic discourse
- Meaning-making in English-medium instruction science classroom interaction: from the systemic functional linguistics perspective
- Scaffolding instruction in an EFL drama lesson: a systemic functional analysis
- Teaching mental processes to EFL learners: a blended-learning proposal
- SFL as a socially accountable praxis: who and what are we working for?
- Regular Articles
- The influence of task complexity and task modality on learners’ topic and turn management
- Explicit grammar instruction in the EFL classroom: studying the impact of age and gender
- Language pedagogies and late-life language learning proficiency
- The relative effects of corrective feedback and language proficiency on the development of L2 pragmalinguistic competence: the case of request downgraders
- Unraveling the dynamics of English communicative motivation and self-efficacy through task-supported language teaching: a latent growth modeling perspective
- Effects of random selection tests on second language vocabulary learning: a comparison with cumulative tests
- Determining the L2 academic writing development stage: a corpus-based research on doctoral dissertations
- Dynamic development of cohesive devices in English as a second language writing
- What pronunciation specialists believe CELTA tutors need to know to prepare student teachers to teach pronunciation
- The effect of collaborative prewriting on L2 collaborative writing production and individual L2 writing development
- Beyond learning opportunities: focused encounters in a sociocognitive approach to second language acquisition and teaching
- Funds of knowledge for synchronous online language teaching: a translanguaging view on an ESL teacher’s pedagogical practices
- A frequency, coverage, and dispersion analysis of the academic collocation list in university student writing
- Fostering well-being in the university L2 classroom: the “I am an author” project
- How teaching modality affects Foreign Language Enjoyment: a comparison of in-person and online English as a Foreign Language classes
- Toward a better understanding of student engagement with peer feedback: a longitudinal study
- Chinese EFL learners’ basic psychological needs satisfaction and foreign language emotions: a person-centered approach
- Are foreign language teaching enjoyment and motivation two sides of the same coin?
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