Exploring the relative contributions of learning motivations and test perceptions to autonomous English as a foreign language learning and achievement.

ABSTRACT: Past studies on the contributions of language learning motivations and test perceptions to language learning have been conducted relatively independently, with few simultaneously gauging the relative effects of these two types of variables on learning behaviors and outcome. In contexts where testing plays a significant role in language education, it is argued that both types of variables are likely to influence language learning. Through a series of multiple regression analyses, this study juxtaposed the relative effects of three types of language learning motivation (i.e., integrative, development and requirement motivation) and two types of perception of a high-stakes English test on Chinese high school students' (n = 3,105) EFL learning practice and achievement, casting fresh lig

SUBMITTER: Liu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9905107 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature