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Don't tell me what to do! The anti-ought-to self and language learning motivation
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This paper explored the motivational profiles of two L1-English-speaking advanced language learners of Chinese and Arabic through narrative inquiry, and examined the dynamicity of the potentially synergistic relationships of the ought-to and anti-ought-to selves.About:
This article is published in System.The article was published on 2017-07-01. It has received 54 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Language acquisition & Narrative inquiry.read more
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Multilingualism and higher education in Greater China
Xuesong Gao,Yongyan Zheng +1 more
TL;DR: There have been widespread concerns over the decline of modern languages and waning interest in learning languages other than English (LOTEs) around the world, thought to be partly due to recent po...
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Language Learning Motivation in the United States: An Examination of Language Choice and Multilingualism
TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationships among motivation, language choice, and multilingualism using data from 195 undergraduate learners of languages other than English (LOTEs) in the context of the United States.
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Profiling Chinese university students’ motivation to learn multiple languages
TL;DR: In this article, a contextual dimension to the L2 Motivational Self System was added to Chinese university students' motivation to learn languages other than English (LOTEs) by adding contextual dimensions to the self-discrepancy model.
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Self-discrepancy: a theory relating self and affect.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theory of how different types of discrepancies between self-state representations are related to different kinds of emotional vulnerabilities, and they predict that differences in both the relative magnitude and the accessibility of individuals' available types of self-discrepancies are predicted to be related to differences in the kinds of discomfort people are likely to experience.
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Promotion and Prevention: Regulatory Focus as A Motivational Principle
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe two different ways in which the hedonic principle operates, one with a promotion focus and the other with a prevention focus, called regulatory focus.
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Life Stories: The Creation of Coherence
TL;DR: Linde as mentioned in this paper studied how people create and exchange coherent oral life stories and found that such stories serve a number of psychological and social purposes, including the development and expression of a sense of self and the solidification and definition of relationships and group memberships.
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