‘I don’t feel like I’m studying languages anymore’. Exploring change in higher education students’ learner beliefs during multilingual language studies

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“…Most of these studies have demonstrated that multilingual learners are aware of the benefits of multilingual pedagogies and are in favour of employing their own multilingual potential for fostering a more multilingual educational system. Nonetheless, little consideration has been given to the attitudinal analysis of prospective teachers (Otwinowska, 2014;Karpava, 2022;Pirhonen, 2022;Tastanbek, 2019;Portolés and Martí, 2020;Martí and Portolés, 2021). This particular group requires greater attention since pre-service teachers will be the future instructors in multilingual educational contexts.…”

Opinion: Understanding EAP learners' beliefs about language learning from a socio-cultural perspective : A longitudinal study at an EMI context in mainland China

“…Thirdly, this study echoes the call for more research with an inclusion of other elements such as learners' motivation and beliefs in learner agency (Gao, 2010 ). However, changes occur during the investigation of learners beliefs during multilingual contexts (Pirhonen, 2022 ), which becomes a new norm in language learning studies. It is recommended that future studies can take these issues into consideration to a wider variety of EMI contexts.…”