Orientations and Motivation in the Acquisition of English as a Second Language Among High School Students in Quebec City  

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Belmechri, Fa'iza ; Hummel, Kirsten

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies (Full Text) vol. 48 no. 2 (Jun. 1998), page 219-244.
Fulltext: 48_02_Belmechri.pdf (292.3KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LLE/48 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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We investigated the emergence of orientationa and their relation to motivation in a predominantly monolingual context. In this context (Quebec City), a previous study (Kruidenier & Clement, 1986) revealed that students' orientations toward learning English as a second language (ESL) were: friendhip, travel, prestige, and knowledge/respect. The present study's participants consisted of 93 franchopone Grade 11 high school students learning ESL. We used as adapted form of Kruidenier and Clement's Likert type scale questionnaire. We ran factor analyses and a multiple regreassion analysis on the data. Results analyses and a that students' orientation were: travle, understanding/school (instrumental), frienship, understanding, and career (instrumental); they also demonstrated that orientations were predictors of their motivation. However, the absence of an integrative orinetation here does not justify its exclusion in the assessment of motivation, because it could emerge in other contexts.

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