Achievement Motivational Characteristics of University Foreign Language Learners: From the Classroom to the Tutoring Table

Autor/in	Matthews, Paul H.
Titel	Achievement Motivational Characteristics of University Foreign Language Learners: From the Classroom to the Tutoring Table
Quelle	In: Foreign Language Annals, 41 (2008) 4, S.611-626 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0015-718X
DOI	10.1111/j.1944-9720.2008.tb03320.x
Schlagwörter	Grade Point Average; Self Efficacy; Second Languages; Second Language Learning; Tutoring; College Students; Statistical Analysis; Student Attitudes; Prediction; Expectation; Language Attitudes; Goal Orientation; Mastery Learning; Language Proficiency; Student Motivation; Negative Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Second language; Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Förderkonzept; Nachhilfeunterricht; Collegestudent; Statistische Analyse; Schülerverhalten; Vorhersage; Expectancy; Erwartung; Sprachverhalten; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Schulische Motivation; Negative Fixierung
Abstract	What influences who seeks foreign language tutoring? Using expectancy value theory, the present study researches the characteristics of university foreign language students in the language classroom (n = 258) and seeking tutoring (n = 29). Students' performance and mastery goal orientations, achievement task values, self-efficacy for foreign language learning, and academic variables were assessed and compared across groups. Foreign language students seeking tutoring were characterized by higher mastery and performance goal orientations and lower overall grade point averages, than those classroom students not seeking tutoring. Additionally, the generally high scores of all students on the motivational variables suggest that pessimistic views of foreign language students' self-efficacy and motivation may be unwarranted. (Contains 7 notes and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10