期刊名称:International Online Journal of Education and Teaching
电子版ISSN:2148-225X
出版年度:2018
卷号:5
期号:2
页码:279-293
语种:English
出版社:Informascope
摘要:Teacher support has an important role in effective language learning,because it helps students have successful motivational and emotional responses.It leads to decreases in anxiety and increases in intrinsic motivation,help-seeking behavior,and effort,factors of productive language learning.Based on this fact,the current study aims to analyze the relationships between EFL students'perceptions of emotional/instrumental support and their motivational/emotional responses.The participants were 200 EFL learners at a state university in Turkey.The data were collected through a questionnaire and a semi-structured interview.Correlation coefficients were obtained to detect the relationships of emotional/instrumental support with anxiety,intrinsic motivation,help-seeking behavior,and effort.Finally,independent-samples t-tests were administered to find potential differences between genders concerning emotional/instrumental support,anxiety,intrinsic motivation,help-seeking behavior,and effort.The findings showed that emotional and instrumental support are two related types of teacher support.Besides,significant positive correlations of emotional/instrumental support with intrinsic motivation,help-seeking behavior,and effort were detected,along with negative correlations of emotional/instrumental support with anxiety.Furthermore,the results showed no significant difference between genders concerning emotional support,anxiety,intrinsic motivation,and effort,but significant differences concerning instrumental support and help-seeking behavior were obtained based on gender.Moreover,the findings of the interviews supported those of the quantitative analyses.