%0 Journal Article
%A Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten
%A Kachel, Gregor
%+ Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Exploring the motivational antecedents of Nepalese learners of L2 English : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-5114-8
%R 10.1515/iral-2017-0037
%D 2018
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X This paper is the first to examine the motivational disposition of Nepalese learners of L2 English. Based on an adapted version of the questionnaire in (Kormos, Judit & Kata Csizér. 2008. Age-related differences in motivation of learning English as a foreign language: Attitudes, selves, and motivated behavior. Language Learning 58. 327–355. Doi:10.1111/j.1467-9922.2008.00443.x.), we test the robustness and culture-specific applicability of well-known motivational antecedents to this learner population, and we investigate how the effects of these antecedents are mediated by the learners’ gender, age and regional aspects of the educational setting. In doing so, we offer novel ways of analyzing the data: Firstly, we employ random forests and conditional inference trees for assessing the relative importance of motivational antecedents. Secondly, we complement the traditional ‘scale-based approach’, which focuses on holistic constructs like the ‘Ideal L2 Self’, with an ‘item-based approach’ that highlights more specific components of such scales. The results are interpreted with reference to the L2 Motivational Self System (Dörnyei, Zoltán. 2005. The psychology of the language learner: Individual differences in second language acquisition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum) and to previous studies on other Asian populations of L2 learners.
%K L2 motivation; L2 motivational self system; English; Nepal; random forests; conditional inference trees 
%J International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
%I De Gruyter Mouton
%C Berlin, Boston
%@ 1613-4141