Abstract
Chapter 5 is mainly about the impact of motivational regulation on the English learning process and achievement. The relations between motivational-regulation strategies, motivational beliefs, language-learning strategies, and English achievement are presented in this chapter.
The results indicate that motivational beliefs, including English-learning goal orientations and English self-efficacy, accounted for a significant portion of the variance in all the eight motivational regulation strategies. The results also indicated that different English learning goal-orientations and self-efficacy varied in their ability to explain students’ motivational regulation.
As for the relationship between motivational-regulation strategies and language-learning strategies, the results from correlation analyses indicated a moderate to strong relationship between them. Multiple regression analyses using the eight motivational-regulation strategies to predict language-learning strategies show that the eight motivational-regulation strategies explained a significant portion of the variance in all the three types of language-learning strategies. Results also provided insight into the relative importance of different motivational regulation strategies in predicting language-learning strategies.
The relations between motivational-regulation strategies and English achievement are also introduced. The students who regulate their motivation better achieve better grades in English learning than students who fail to self-regulate their motivation. The results also indicate that some motivational-regulation strategies are more effective than others in promoting language learning.
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Li, K. (2017). The Impact of Motivational Regulation on EFL Learning. In: Motivational Regulation in Foreign Language Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-93118-7_5
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