Foreign language learning motivation and the socioeconomic status of Czech lower secondary students: An analysis of mediating factors
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11410%2F24%3A10472629" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11410/24:10472629 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=CKC-U0UmT9" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=CKC-U0UmT9</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2023.102302" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ijer.2023.102302</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Foreign language learning motivation and the socioeconomic status of Czech lower secondary students: An analysis of mediating factors
Original language description
The relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and students' English as a foreign language (EFL) learning motivation is an under-researched topic. However, with growing concerns about how SES affects students' academic behaviors and educational outcomes, an investigation of this topic is needed. Applying the L2 motivational self-system theory, we explore, on a sample of 664 Czech lower secondary students, the effect of SES on students' EFL learning motivation and examine whether this effect can be explained by students' attendance at elite schools and their families' use of English while traveling abroad. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. The findings suggest that SES plays an important role in both students' L2 learning experience and ideal L2 self. We found that children of parents with higher SES levels are more likely to attend elite schools and experience trips abroad with their family where English is used to communicate, which can largely explain the effect of SES on students' L2 learning experience and L2 ideal self. Future research into the factors that contribute to language learning motivation among students from different SES levels could further shed light on how the motivation gap can be closed.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-05484S" target="_blank" >GA20-05484S: Analyzing the determinants of self-reported English language knowledge and motivation for English language learning in Czech lower secondary students</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Educational Research
ISSN
0883-0355
e-ISSN
1873-538X
Volume of the periodical
124
Issue of the periodical within the volume
January
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
102302
UT code for WoS article
001149941700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85181068419