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Self-Sustained Learning in English Learning and Its Predictors
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: Received: 19 June 2024 / Approved: 19 June 2024 / Online: 19 June 2024 (07:39:26 CEST)
How to cite: Yang, L.; Wang, H.; Zhang, H.; Long, H. Self-Sustained Learning in English Learning and Its Predictors. Preprints 2024, 2024061322. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.1322.v1 Yang, L.; Wang, H.; Zhang, H.; Long, H. Self-Sustained Learning in English Learning and Its Predictors. Preprints 2024, 2024061322. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.1322.v1
Abstract
Self-sustained learning (SSL) is considered a crucial factor in promoting students’ long-term learning and development in a sustainable society. To deepen the understanding of SSL, especially in the context of learning English as a second language, the current study examined the influence of intercultural communicative skills, language mindset, and positive L2 self on SSL in English learning among 1,238 college students in China. The results showed that students not only had a strong language mindset, positive L2 self, and intercultural communicative skills but also scored higher in long-term self-sustained English learning. Findings from the Structural Equation Modeling indicated that both language mindset and intercultural communicative skills positively predicted positive L2 self and self-sustained English learning. Furthermore, language mindset and intercultural communicative skills had an indirect impact on self-sustained English learning through positive L2 self. These findings suggest that to promote English learners’ SSL, instructors should help facilitate students’ intercultural communicative skills and foster a growth language mindset, as well as positive language learning beliefs.
Keywords
learning English as a second language; self-sustained learning; intercultural communicative skills; language mindset; positive L2 self; Structural Equation Modeling; indirect effects
Subject
Social Sciences, Education
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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