The present study investigated the relationships among willingness to communicate, communication apprehension, and self-perceived communication competence in Persian (L1) versus English (L2). A total number of 235 adult native Persian EFL learners were selected through convenience sampling to participate in the study. The population consisted of 118 intermediate learners and 113 upper-intermedi...

Recent studies elaborating on the L2 learning experience component of Motivational Self System (Dörnyei, 2005, 2009), especially through a narrative identity perspective, mark new direction in motivation research. This paper extends this work by exploring connection between and ideal self components. Emerging from different theoretical origins, these components have proved difficult to reconcil...

Title of Document: CONTRIBUTIONS OF PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, MOTIVATION, AND STRATEGIES TO KOREAN COLLEGE STUDENTS’ L2 WRITING DEVELOPMENT Soo Eun Chae Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Directed By: Professor Patricia A. Alexander, Department of Human Development The current study examined Korean college students’ L2 writing development and performance, motivation, and strategies while taking ESL writing clas...

Theoretical basis of this paper is the heuristic L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS). The research aims to determine degree which ideal self can be regarded as a significant factor with regards its power make difference in students’ actual motivated behaviour communication. sample consists 396 students. predictor variable. Willingness communicate and obtained grades are criterion variables. Gen...

Deontic logic is the logic to reason about ideal and actual behaviour. Besides the traditional role as an underlying logic for law and ethics (for a survey see [MW]), in the realm of computer science, deontic logic has been proposed as a logic for the specification of legal expert systems [BMT87],[Sta80], authorization mechanisms [ML85], decision support systems [Kd.,88], [Lee88b],[Lee88a], dat...

Motivation can be conceptualized as a dynamic process which is a key contributor to mastering a second language. This study used the L2-Motivational Self System as the basis for a conceptual framework for studying the effects of external factors on learners' motivation. In particular, the role of teachers and parents was studied as the external facets of predicting learners' motivation. One hun...