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Attitudes Toward Task‐Based Language Learning: A Study of College Korean Language Learners
Author(s) -
Ooyoung Pyun Danielle
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/flan.12015
Subject(s) - psychology , descriptive statistics , task (project management) , foreign language , anxiety , regression analysis , self efficacy , foreign language anxiety , mathematics education , variables , social psychology , computer science , statistics , mathematics , management , machine learning , psychiatry , economics
This study explores second/foreign language (L2) learners' attitudes toward task‐based language learning (TBLL) and how these attitudes relate to selected learner variables, namely anxiety, integrated motivation, instrumental motivation, and self‐efficacy. Ninety‐one college students of Korean as a foreign language, who received task‐based language instruction, participated in this questionnaire study. Data were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. A correlation analysis between variables indicated that students' attitudes toward TBLL were positively associated with self‐efficacy and integrative motivation while they were negatively associated with anxiety. A multiple regression analysis further revealed that only one variable, self‐efficacy, was the significant predictor of learners' attitudes toward TBLL .