Dewaele, Jean-Marc (2022) The predictors of exam performance of Kazakh university students and secondary school pupils learning Turkish: an exploratory investigation. ITL Review of Applied Linguistics 173 (1), pp. 94-119. ISSN 0019-0829.
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Abstract
The present study investigates the effect of sociobiographical, emotional, attitudinal characteristics and teacher perceptions of 275 Kazakh secondary school pupils and 317 university students on their exam performance in Turkish as a foreign language (FL). Multiple regression analyses reveal that exam results in Turkish of secondary school pupils are predicted by teacher gender, participant’s age, attitude towards the FL and FL Classroom Anxiety. A very different picture emerges for university students, where FL level, participant’s gender, FL Enjoyment, FL Classroom Anxiety and teacher’s age explain more than twice as much variance. FL exam scores for both groups are thus underpinned by different sets of complex interactions between multiple learner-internal and learner-external variables and the effect of emotions is much stronger among university learners.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Foreign Language Enjoyment, Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety, Kazakhstan, Turkish, exam performance |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Depositing User: | Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Nov 2021 09:34 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Jun 2025 21:00 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/46714 |
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