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A structural equation model on english learning self of middle school students in China's ethnic minority populated area

As the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) is premised on monolingualism, which ignores the cross-cutting properties of multilingual environments, this study investigates the English Learning Self and its structural characteristics of students in a junior high school in a minority-inhabited area of...

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Main Authors: Xuan, Yunyun, Xie, Xiao, Nimehchisalem, Vahid
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Language:English
Published: Academy Publication 2023
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spelling my.upm.eprints.1067712024-10-11T08:26:12Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/106771/ A structural equation model on english learning self of middle school students in China's ethnic minority populated area Xuan, Yunyun Xie, Xiao Nimehchisalem, Vahid As the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) is premised on monolingualism, which ignores the cross-cutting properties of multilingual environments, this study investigates the English Learning Self and its structural characteristics of students in a junior high school in a minority-inhabited area of Guizhou Province, China. These ethnic minority students not only learn their native language (minority languages), but also learn Mandarin Chinese, through which they learn English as their third language, with features of low English proficiency, weak motivation to learn English, and low frequency of English use. Data were collected from 159 Han Chinese students and 274 ethnic minority students in the eighth grade of the junior high school. Structural equation modelling revealed that the Ideal English Self contains three factors: Ideal English Learner, Ideal English Career and Ideal English User, and the most significant Ideal English Self exhibited by the middle school students was Ideal English Learner; while the Ought-to English Self contains three factors: Meeting Other’s Expectation, Self’s Future Expectation and Self’s Present Demand, with Meeting Other’s Expectation marking contributed the most. Through comparative analysis, this study further found that there was no significant difference between local Han Chinese students and ethnic minority students in terms of English Learning Self. Academy Publication 2023-03-02 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/106771/1/A%20structural%20equation%20model%20on%20english%20learning.pdf Xuan, Yunyun and Xie, Xiao and Nimehchisalem, Vahid (2023) A structural equation model on english learning self of middle school students in China's ethnic minority populated area. Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 13 (3). pp. 655-663. ISSN 1799-2591; ESSN: 2053-0692 https://tpls.academypublication.com/index.php/tpls/article/view/5614 10.17507/tpls.1303.14
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description As the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) is premised on monolingualism, which ignores the cross-cutting properties of multilingual environments, this study investigates the English Learning Self and its structural characteristics of students in a junior high school in a minority-inhabited area of Guizhou Province, China. These ethnic minority students not only learn their native language (minority languages), but also learn Mandarin Chinese, through which they learn English as their third language, with features of low English proficiency, weak motivation to learn English, and low frequency of English use. Data were collected from 159 Han Chinese students and 274 ethnic minority students in the eighth grade of the junior high school. Structural equation modelling revealed that the Ideal English Self contains three factors: Ideal English Learner, Ideal English Career and Ideal English User, and the most significant Ideal English Self exhibited by the middle school students was Ideal English Learner; while the Ought-to English Self contains three factors: Meeting Other’s Expectation, Self’s Future Expectation and Self’s Present Demand, with Meeting Other’s Expectation marking contributed the most. Through comparative analysis, this study further found that there was no significant difference between local Han Chinese students and ethnic minority students in terms of English Learning Self.
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author Xuan, Yunyun
Xie, Xiao
Nimehchisalem, Vahid
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Xie, Xiao
Nimehchisalem, Vahid
A structural equation model on english learning self of middle school students in China's ethnic minority populated area
author_facet Xuan, Yunyun
Xie, Xiao
Nimehchisalem, Vahid
author_sort Xuan, Yunyun
title A structural equation model on english learning self of middle school students in China's ethnic minority populated area
title_short A structural equation model on english learning self of middle school students in China's ethnic minority populated area
title_full A structural equation model on english learning self of middle school students in China's ethnic minority populated area
title_fullStr A structural equation model on english learning self of middle school students in China's ethnic minority populated area
title_full_unstemmed A structural equation model on english learning self of middle school students in China's ethnic minority populated area
title_sort structural equation model on english learning self of middle school students in china's ethnic minority populated area
publisher Academy Publication
publishDate 2023
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