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标题：Motivational Beliefs in Mother Tongue and Foreign Language Learning
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作者：ROVAN, Daria ; JELIĆ, Andrea-Beata
期刊名称：Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1330-0288
出版年度：2010
卷号：19
期号：4-5 (108-109)
页码：873-894
出版社：Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要：The aim of this study was to examine motivational beliefs related to mother tongue (Croatian) and foreign language (English, French) learning. The difference between the students' motivational beliefs in these school subjects and the correlation between motivational beliefs and students' achievement in given subjects were investigated. The participants were 98 high-school students. The instruments included a questionnaire containing scales measuring self- -efficacy, perceived value and achievement goals. Students' grades, as indicators of achievement in school subjects of interest, were also gathered. The results suggest that significant differences concerning different school subjects exist in perceived utility and self-efficacy as well as in mastery-avoidance goal. The most unfavourable set of motivational beliefs concerns French, and the most favourable one is related to English. Patterns of correlation between motivational beliefs and achievement are very similar for all examined languages and a key predictor of achievement is self-efficacy. The results may be useful in instruction planning which may positively affect learners' motivation for language learning.
关键词：motivation; language learning; achievement goals; self-efficacy; perceived value