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Cultural Learning Outcomes And Summer Study Abroad, Heather W. Allen, Veronica Dristas, Nicole A. Mills
Cultural Learning Outcomes And Summer Study Abroad, Heather W. Allen, Veronica Dristas, Nicole A. Mills
Nicole A Mills
This study investigated cultural learning by 194 high school students in summer study abroad programs. Quantitative analysis was used to determine if significant changes occurred in self reports of cultural, linguistic, and interpersonal challenges in the target culture; understanding of target-culture perspectives, practices, and products; and identification with native versus target culture after study abroad. Outcomes in each area were compared between homestay and non-homestay participants. This chapter was published in "Identity and Second Language Learning: Culture, Inquiry, and Dialogic Activity in Educational Contexts."
A Reevaluation Of The Role Of Anxiety: Self-Efficacy, Anxiety And Their Relation To Reading And Listening Proficiency, Nicole A. Mills, Frank Pajares, Carol Herron
A Reevaluation Of The Role Of Anxiety: Self-Efficacy, Anxiety And Their Relation To Reading And Listening Proficiency, Nicole A. Mills, Frank Pajares, Carol Herron
Nicole A Mills
Research findings from several academic domains have demonstrated that students’ judgments of their own academic capabilities, or self-efficacy beliefs, influence their academic behaviors and performances. Absent from this body of research are studies assessing self-efficacy beliefs and their relation to foreign language proficiency. Informed by the tenets of Bandura’s (1986) social cognitive theory, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between self-efficacy, anxiety, and French proficiency in reading and listening. Students’ reading self-efficacy in French was positively related to reading proficiency, whereas reading anxiety was not related. Listening self-efficacy was positively associated with listening proficiency only for …