Motivational Individual Differences and the Communicative English Output of Japanese Learners: A Psychometric and Predictive Study

动机个体差异和日语学习者的英语交际输出：心理测量和预测研究

• 批准号: 21K20214
• 负责人: Vitta Joseph・Paul
• 金额: $ 1.25万
• 依托单位: Kyushu University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2021-08-30 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K20214/
• 关键词: individual differences; TBLT; self-efficacy; WTC; PLL; L2 spoken task; L2 Output; Self-efficacy; L2 Motivation

The project was approved in September 2021, and data collection took place from October 2021 to January 2022. Data analysis and corpus construction took place from January 2022 to August 2022. Starting in August 2022, the research was presented in the form of research reports, and two papers are currently under review at international journals, with a third in preparation. The project was proposed as a psychometric and predictive endeavor, and the research achievements are presented as such.Psychometric Findings: International Posture was observed to have poor underlying psychometric properties and was excluded from the analysis. Willingness-to-communicate (WTC), speaking (task) self-efficacy (SSE), and perceived communicative competence (PCC), on the other hand, had good psychometrics, with adequate internal and external validity and reliability. SSE and PCC bordered on having a discriminant validity issue, but their association was below the lenient r < .90 threshold. These findings were cross-validated using an EFA->CFA process, where both samples exceeded 200 participants. SSE was also piloted beforehand on 130 learners as it was a new instrument.Predictive Findings: In the testing sample (N = 230), WTC, SSE, and PCC all had moderate and positive associations (.38 < r < .47) with speaking task output. In the multivariate models, only WTC was significant, and it explained about 22% of the variance of the dependent variable. Interestingly, WTC was observed to mediate the relationships of both SSE and PCC with the dependent variable.

该项目于2021年9月获得批准，数据收集于2021年10月至2022年1月进行。数据分析和语料库构建于2022年1月至2022年8月进行。从2022年8月开始，该研究以研究报告的形式发表，目前有两篇论文正在国际期刊上接受审查，第三篇正在准备中。本项目是作为一项心理测量和预测的努力而提出的，研究成果也是如此。心理测量结果：国际姿势被观察到具有较差的潜在心理测量特性，并被排除在分析之外。沟通意愿（WTC）、口语（任务）自我效能感（SSE）和感知交际能力（PCC）具有良好的心理测量值，具有足够的内部效度和外部信度。SSE和PCC接近于存在区别效度问题，但它们的关联低于宽松的r < .90阈值。使用EFA->CFA过程对这些发现进行了交叉验证，其中两个样本都超过200名参与者。由于SSE是一种新仪器，因此事先在130名学习者中进行了试点。预测结果：在测试样本（N = 230）中，WTC、SSE和PCC均有中度和正相关（p < 0.05）。38 < r < .47)。在多变量模型中，只有WTC是显著的，它解释了因变量约22%的方差。有趣的是，WTC被观察到介导了SSE和PCC与因变量的关系。