To enrich our understanding of the attitudinal/motivational basis of foreign language learning at junior high school level, this study investigated the students’ status of L2 motivation, the relationship between motivational factors, and the possibility of predicting their motivated learning behavior in light of Dörnyei’s (2005, 2009) theory of L2 Motivational Self System. To this end, 1462 jun...

Global changes in eating attitudes were examined prospectively across pregnancy and 4 months postpartum in a sample of 90 women. In addition, specific changes in dieting behavior and weight/shape satisfaction were assessed at 4 months postpartum for concurrent and retrospective time points. Measures included the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) and weight/shape satisfaction in pregnancy and at 4 mon...

Purpose: The knowledge, attitudes and practice among inhabitants of Mto wa Mbu Division was examined to provide objective information on sparganosis infection. Hence, the study was carried out. Methods: The study was conducted among the inhabitants of Mto wa Mbu Division, Monduli District, Tanzania from January to April 2012. Inhabitants were informed about the objective of the study and invite...

This study used an online second language (L2) vocabulary lesson to evaluate whether the physical body (i.e., embodiment) of a robot tutor has impact on how learner learns from robot. In addition, we tested individual differences in attitudes toward robots, first impressions robot, anxiety learning L2, and personality traits may be related L2 learning. One hundred Turkish-speaking young adults ...

Research suggests that individual differences in additional language learning may play a more important role taxing situations when learners are confronted with unfamiliar or difficult tasks. However, studies to date have mostly focused on second (L2) learners/bilinguals, while within multilingual populations remain under-researched. Working university-level adults, we compared the effectivenes...