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https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v26i3.5271
Born to be an English Speaker: Motivational Pathways of Fixed Mindset to Success in EFL
Sinem Maden
orcid.org/0000-0003-1084-8921
; Bilkent University, Graduate School of Education
Hilal Peker
orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-3015
; Florida Gulf Coast University, College of Education and Honors College
Aikaterini Michou
; University of Ioannina, Department of Philosophy
Sažetak
Several maladaptive motivational pathways to success have been investigated in foreignlanguage (L2) learning. However, the links between a fixed mindset and academicsuccess through language selves and academic buoyancy in English PreparatoryPrograms (EPP) of English Medium Instruction (EMI) universities have not beenresearched. Although the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS; Dörnyei, 2005) hasbeen extensively used to describe L2 learners’ motivation, its links with importantmotivational constructs such us students’ mindset and academic buoyancy in theprediction of success have not been studied to fully describe L2 learners’ motivationalpathways to success. In the present study, carried out on a sample of 343 TurkishEPP learners and through partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLSSEM), we identified the following maladaptive pathways: learners’ fixed mindsetwas related to their ought-to and feared L2 selves (Peker, 2016, 2020) positively andto their ideal L2 self and academic buoyancy negatively. Academic buoyancy andacademic success were positively related. Significant negative indirect relationshipsbetween fixed mindset and academic buoyancy through L2 selves were identifiedin addition to significant negative indirect relationships between fixed mindset andacademic success through L2 selves and academic buoyancy. We discuss EPP students’motivational mechanisms in terms of their implications for facilitating their success.
Ključne riječi
academic buoyancy; academic success; feared L2 self; fixed mindset; L2MSS
Hrčak ID:
322416
URI
Datum izdavanja:
25.9.2024.
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