Foreign Language Learning Motivation and Self-efficacy: A focus on the the Mediating Role of Fear of Failure
Mehrafarin Pirzadeh Khordouni
1
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Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
)
Sajad Shafiee
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Australian Centre for Education (ACE/idp), Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Masoomeh Salehi
3
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English Department, Shahr-e-Qods Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
)
الکلمات المفتاحية: Self-efficacy, Fear of Failure, Foreign/Second Language Learning Motivation, Second Language Acquisition,
ملخص المقالة :
The process of globalization trend and the global movement toward migration, trade, and interaction with a large number of people from diverse countries have made foreign language learning an inevitable necessity that requires skills, knowledge, and motivation. In this regard, the present research proposed a model to explain the relationship between foreign language learning motivation (FLLM) and self-efficacy (SE) and examines the mediating role of fear of failure (FOF) in this relationship by analyzing the responses of 357 Iranian English learners to the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES), the Performance Failure Appraisal Inventory (PFAI), and the Attitude/Motivation Test Battery (AMTB) for foreign/second language learning using the structural equation modeling method. The findings demonstrated that the direct path from SE to FLLM and the direct path from SE to FOF were significant; however, the direct path from FOF to FLLM did not reach statistical significance. Therefore, the indirect path from SE to FLLM through FOF was not of statistical significance either. Consequently, FOF is not considered a mediating or facilitating factor in the relationship between SE and FLLM.
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