Open AccessTO BE AND HOW TO BE: INSIDES OF PROGRESS AND FAILURE IN LANGUAGE LEARNING
Author(s) -
Nguyễn Xuân Trường
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
khoa học và công nghệ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2525-2267
DOI - 10.46242/jst-iuh.v35i05.336
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , perspective (graphical) , autonomy , grounded theory , ethnography , language acquisition , learner autonomy , mathematics education , computer science , psychology , epistemology , qualitative research , artificial intelligence , sociology , language education , comprehension approach , social science , programming language , philosophy , political science , anthropology , law
This study investigated deeply into what happened when a language learner made failure and success. The question is how and what learners do to make improvements and achievements and/or to turn their learning results worse. Adopting grounded theory methodology and ethnographic perspective with prolong observations and interviews as the basis of data collection and analysis, the researcher studied the learning stories of 8 participants in 24 months to build up a general formula explaining how improvements and achievements operate. Motivation and autonomy were classified as the two central and most stable constructs in a holistic model containing numerous changing affective factors. Results showed that it is not really because of any single change in any individual factor/construct, but the operation of this whole model shapes the success and failure in language learning.