EFL Learners’ Beliefs about Language Learning along Gender, Further Education in Language Institutes &amp; Different Proficiency Levels

Nahavandi, Naemeh; Mukundan, Jayakaran

doi:10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.3n.1p.170

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“…These findings are consistent with previous research in which no gender difference in beliefs was reported (Tercanlioglu, 2005). In contrast, these results vary from research of Nahavandi and Mukundan (2014) who reported that on the basis of gender and proficiency levels, the significant differences was determined in engineering Iranian students' beliefs. Iqbal and Yongbing (2017) researched learner beliefs and variation on the basis of gender differences.…”

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Anxiety and Beliefs about English Language Learning: A Research on Gender

2019

IJITL

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This study aimed to investigate gender differences among engineering students in anxiety and beliefs about English Language Learning at Mehran UET, Pakistan. The triangulation research design was employed to address research question and objective. The respondents (N=221) including 105 female and 116 male voluntarily participated and provided their responses on FLCAS and BALLI items. The semi-structured interviews were conducted to provide in-depth understanding of anxiety and beliefs as multi-faceted dimensions of emotions about language learning in a classroom. t-test was computed to check gender differences in anxiety and language beliefs of engineering students. The interview responses of the participants confirmed and corroborated the descriptive results. Quantitatively, the findings of the study indicated no gender differences in students' foreign language anxiety and language beliefs. Qualitatively, a semi structured interview data also supported the descriptive results. Through these results, this research discovers that anxiety and beliefs are significantly associated with leaners' foreign language learning. The current study on gender differences in terms of anxiety and beliefs confirmed previous studies and contributed convincingly in the exiting literature on anxiety and beliefs.

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Anxiety and Beliefs about English Language Learning: A Research on Gender

2019

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“…Hou, 2013), gender and learners' beliefs (e.g. Siebert, 2003;Bernatt & Lloyd, 2007;Daif-Allah, 2012;Nahavandi, 2014), language proficiency and learner beliefs (e.g. Samimy & Lee, 1997;Abedini et al, 2011;Bagherzadeh, 2012), success and learners' beliefs (e.g.…”

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A Study on English Preparatory Program EFL Learners’ Beliefs about Language Learning in Relation to Gender, Second Foreign Language Knowledge and Foreign Country Experience

Hişmanoğlu

2016

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This study aims at investigating preparatory program EFL learners' beliefs about language learning as well as the effects of gender, second foreign language knowledge and foreign country experience on language learners' beliefs about foreign language learning. After presenting the related literature with respect to the topic of language learners' beliefs about foreign language learning, it continues with the methodology section that describes a quantitative research study in which 149 preparatory program EFL learners from the Foreign Languages School of a state university located in the west part of Turkey participated. The participants of the study had the same linguistic proficiencies (A1elementary level). The paper concludes by indicating the findings of the research and also by making some recommendations for language teachers to enable teachers to design lessons that meet the needs of individual learners when teaching English as a second/foreign language (TESL/TEFL).

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“…In Iran. Nahavandi and Mukundan (2014) administered a translated Farsi version of the BALLI along with a demographic questionnaire to 369 Iranian EFL learners in Azad University of Tabriz, Iran. The participants' ages ranged from 18 to 41.…”

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معتقدات تعلم اللغة ودینامیات الجندر لدى طلاب الجامعة فی مصر: دراسة استکشافیة

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2016

حولیات کلیة الآداب جامعة عین شمس

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The present study contributes to the growing body of research in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) literature on foreign language learners' beliefs about language learning. It aims at exploring students" beliefs about language learning in an Englishmedium university in Cairo, Egypt and examining the gender dynamics that shape and sustain those beliefs. The study adopted a mixed-methods data collection approach, data was collected using a questionnaire and interviews. Sixty-five first year students took a modified version of Horwitz"s (1987) Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory (BALLI). Nine participants were interviewed for an in-depth exploration of their language learning beliefs. The results showed that the lucrative future career foreign language learning in Egypt promises is the primary reason students are interested in investing in learning English. In terms of gender dynamics, the findings revealed that gender differences as a variable is not to be assumed. In the specific population which participated in the study, there was little evidence in their intention to follow traditional societal norms proscribing women joining the workforce. Consequently, other social variables ought to be taken into account for more significant research findings.

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EFL Learners’ Beliefs about Language Learning along Gender, Further Education in Language Institutes & Different Proficiency Levels

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Anxiety and Beliefs about English Language Learning: A Research on Gender

Anxiety and Beliefs about English Language Learning: A Research on Gender

A Study on English Preparatory Program EFL Learners’ Beliefs about Language Learning in Relation to Gender, Second Foreign Language Knowledge and Foreign Country Experience

معتقدات تعلم اللغة ودینامیات الجندر لدى طلاب الجامعة فی مصر: دراسة استکشافیة

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