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    Fixed mindset, achievement goals, reconceptualized L2 motivational self system, academic buoyancy, resilience and success of English preparatory program students at Turkish EMI Universities: a structural equation modeling study
    (2024-09) Tuna, Sinem Maden
    Motivation has not yet been fully explored as an integrative construct comprising complementary aspects from various motivational theories that, together, can more effectively predict student success in learning English as a foreign language (EFL). This gap in the literature limits our understanding of what drives English learners to be resilient, buoyant, and ultimately succeed. In this correlational study, I used Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to examine the relationship between a fixed mindset and academic success, mediated either by achievement goals (Model 1) or L2 motivational selves (Model 2), along with academic resilience and buoyancy, in English Preparatory Programs (EPPs). Data were collected from 343 students enrolled in EPPs at four English-Medium Instruction (EMI) universities in Türkiye. The findings revealed fixed mindset was positively related to mastery avoidance and performance avoidance goals similar to ought-to L2 self and feared L2 self. On the other hand, the relation among fixed mindset, ideal L2 self, and academic resilience was negative. Moreover, academic success has a positive relation with academic buoyancy, but negative relation with feared L2 self. Additionally, while students' ideal L2 selves were similar to their approach goals, their feared L2 selves were similar to avoidance goals in terms of relations to resilience and buoyancy. The implications are provided in light of the newly developed models.
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    An investigation of adult EFL learners' foreign language pronunciation anxiety and reconceptualized L2 motivational self system regarding English pronunciation in the context of a higher education institution in Turkey
    (2020-06) Tekten, Burcu
    In this study, foreign language pronunciation anxiety of English learners was examined within the scope of Reconceptualized L2 Motivational Self System. This non-experimental, cross-sectional quantitative study was conducted with 596 participants at the school of foreign languages of a state university in Turkey. A questionnaire was distributed online to collect data. The items of the questionnaire were adopted and adapted from Kralova, Skorvagova, Tirpakova, and Markechova (2017), Peker (2016), and Baran-Lucarz (2016). In order to analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistics were run. The results indicated that foreign language pronunciation anxiety was a determinant of future L2 pronunciation selves. Moreover, feared L2 pronunciation self negatively correlated with ideal L2 pronunciation self, whereas it correlated positively with ought-to L2 pronunciation self. Finally, foreign language pronunciation anxiety was higher in female learners, less proficient learners, learners who had never been abroad and learners who had been learning English for a shorter period of time.
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    A structural equation model on EFL tertiary level students' academic buoyancy, academic resilience, reconceptualized L2 motivational self system, and their academic achieveme
    (2020-06) Toprak Çelen, Esma
    In this study, it was aimed to investigate the relationship among academic buoyancy, academic resilience, reconceptualized L2 motivational self system, and tertiary level students’ academic achievement. The study was conducted at a public university in Ankara, Turkey. The data were derived from 436 tertiary level students receiving one-year intensive English education to start their studies in their departments. They were required to become proficient in English to gain the right to start their majors. The data were gathered through an adopted survey, and analyzed via SPSS v.25 and SmartPLS v.3.2.9. A new model was created to explain the relationships among the variables through Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The findings revealed significant relationships between the participants’ academic buoyancy and their midterm average scores as well as between the feared L2 self and academic buoyancy. Also, participants’ ideal L2 selves and English learning experiences were found to be strong predictors of their perseverance. Results were discussed and implications were provided in line with the current findings of the new model.
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    A structural equation model on translanguaging practices, foreign language classroom anxiety, reconceptualized L2 motivational self system, and foreign language achievement of emergent bilinguals
    (2020-06) Özkaynak, Onur
    The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between translanguaging practices, foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA), reconceptualized L2 motivational self system (R-L2MSS), and English language achievement scores of emergent bilinguals. To this end, 386 A1 and A2-level English learners, studying at a preparatory school of a university in Turkey, took part in the study. The quantitative data were derived through a 45-item survey. First, an exploratory factor analysis performed on the responses to the Translanguaging Practices Scale and two factors were obtained. Subsequently, the whole data were adapted and tested for measurement model validity and reliability. Partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) results, analyzed in Smart PLS (Version 3.2.9), revealed there was a statistically significant relationship between translanguaging practices, foreign language classroom anxiety, and reconceptualized L2 motivational self system. However, the relationship between translanguaging practices and English language achievement scores was not statistically significant.