Affective variables in a foreign language immersion programme: a quantitative study

Autor: Marta del Pozo Beamud
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica, Vol 47, Iss 0, Pp 77-93 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0211-0547
1699-292X
DOI: 10.18172/cif.4385
Popis: Language immersion has gained momentum within the last decades, as many learners around the word have benefitted from this motivating experience. Therefore, the principal aim of the present study was to ascertain whether a week of instruction at a linguistic immersion centre, whose language is English, has a positive influence on the levels of both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, FL anxiety and the FL selves (Deci Ryan 2000, Dörnyei 2005, Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope 1991). Our participants were Primary education students (sixth graders; M: 11.5) who had taken part in such programme. They completed a quantitative questionnaire upon arrival (t1) and before leaving (t2). In order to compare their results both at time one and time at two one-factor ANOVA analysis was used. Results indicated that after the language learning inmersion programme experience, motivation increased, whereas anxiety decreased and the presence of the selves in the participants was weakened
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