This paper is the first to examine the motivational disposition of Nepalese
learners of L2 English. Based on an adapted version of the questionnaire in
(Kormos, Judit & Kata Csizér. 2008. Age-related differences in motivation of learning
English as a foreign language: Attitudes, selves, and motivated behavior. Language
Learning 58. 327–355. Doi:10.1111/j.1467-9922.2008.00443.x.), we test the robustness
and culture-specific applicability of well-known motivational antecedents to this
learner population, and we investigate how the effects of these antecedents are
mediated by the learners’ gender, age and regional aspects of the educational
setting. In doing so, we offer novel ways of analyzing the data: Firstly, we employ
random forests and conditional inference trees for assessing the relative importance
of motivational antecedents. Secondly, we complement the traditional ‘scale-based
approach’, which focuses on holistic constructs like the ‘Ideal L2 Self’, with an ‘item- based approach’ that highlights more specific components of such scales. The
results are interpreted with reference to the L2 Motivational Self System (Dörnyei,
Zoltán. 2005. The psychology of the language learner: Individual differences in second
language acquisition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum) and to previous studies on
other Asian populations of L2 learners.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:92128 |
| Date | 19 June 2024 |
| Creators | Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten, Kachel, Gregor |
| Publisher | Mouton de Gruyter |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 0019-042X, 1613-4141, 10.1515/iral-2017-0037 |
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