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Language Learners’ Attitudes Toward Online and Face-To-Face Language Environments

Learners’ attitudes are important for language learning. The attitude toward behavior construct, established in social psychology, was selected to elicit and examine learners’ attitudes toward face-to-face and online language learning. Data were collected using two instruments—questionnaires and int...

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Autor principal: Alhamami, Munassir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9346443/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35936261
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.926310
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description Learners’ attitudes are important for language learning. The attitude toward behavior construct, established in social psychology, was selected to elicit and examine learners’ attitudes toward face-to-face and online language learning. Data were collected using two instruments—questionnaires and interviews with two groups: face-to-face (n = 681) and online language learning (n = 287). The results show that the attitude toward behavior concept is an effective theoretical framework for designing questionnaires to understand the factors that influence the participants’ attitudes and to predict these in different learning environments. I compared the two groups’ results and found a more positive attitude toward language learning in face-to-face environments than in online language learning settings. The mixed-method design enables us to assess learners’ attitudes to the language learning environment. This informs curriculum design, policy, and support for teaching and learning.
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spelling pubmed-93464432022-08-04 Language Learners’ Attitudes Toward Online and Face-To-Face Language Environments Alhamami, Munassir Front Psychol Psychology Learners’ attitudes are important for language learning. The attitude toward behavior construct, established in social psychology, was selected to elicit and examine learners’ attitudes toward face-to-face and online language learning. Data were collected using two instruments—questionnaires and interviews with two groups: face-to-face (n = 681) and online language learning (n = 287). The results show that the attitude toward behavior concept is an effective theoretical framework for designing questionnaires to understand the factors that influence the participants’ attitudes and to predict these in different learning environments. I compared the two groups’ results and found a more positive attitude toward language learning in face-to-face environments than in online language learning settings. The mixed-method design enables us to assess learners’ attitudes to the language learning environment. This informs curriculum design, policy, and support for teaching and learning. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9346443/ /pubmed/35936261 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.926310 Text en Copyright © 2022 Alhamami. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Language Learners’ Attitudes Toward Online and Face-To-Face Language Environments
title Language Learners’ Attitudes Toward Online and Face-To-Face Language Environments
title_full Language Learners’ Attitudes Toward Online and Face-To-Face Language Environments
title_fullStr Language Learners’ Attitudes Toward Online and Face-To-Face Language Environments
title_full_unstemmed Language Learners’ Attitudes Toward Online and Face-To-Face Language Environments
title_short Language Learners’ Attitudes Toward Online and Face-To-Face Language Environments
title_sort language learners’ attitudes toward online and face-to-face language environments
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9346443/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35936261
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.926310
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