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Epistemological Beliefs and Language Learning Beliefs: What Do Language Learners Believe About Their Learning?
Author(s) -
Mori Yoshiko
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/0023-8333.00094
Subject(s) - psychology , language acquisition , foreign language , linguistics , mathematics education , philosophy
This study (a) examines the structure of language learners' beliefs about learning in general and beliefs specifically about language learning and (b) explores the relationship between the 2 belief domains. A belief questionnaire was administered to 187 college students learning Japanese as a foreign language. Factor analyses identified 5 dimensions of general epistemological beliefs comparable to those reported by Schommer (1990, 1994b), and 6 dimensions of language learning beliefs. Although there were some significant correlations between these belief factors, students' beliefs about learning in general and language learning in particular can largely be characterized as consisting of multiple independent dimensions.