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Motivation and the Transition to University
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This chapter focuses on the motivational profiles of English for academic purposes language learners in Australia. It has emerged from a research project that examined a wide range of issues concerning the academic performance of ‘foundation college’ students in Australia (Woodrow et al., 2011). The chapter focuses on motivation and how this changes over time for a cohort of international students during their foundation programme and through their first year of undergraduate university study. Information was collected using questionnaires and interviews on three occasions: at the beginning of their foundation course, after one semester of their undergraduate course and at the end of their first year. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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Learner motivation is particularly vulnerable at transition points like primary to secondary or foundation course to HE.
“and learner motivation is particularly vulnerable at transition points like primary to secondary (Burns et al. 2013) or foundation course to HE (Woodrow 2013).”
From The motivational dimension of language teaching (2017) · cites this paper as Woodrow 2013
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- Authors
- Woodrow, L.
- Corresponding author
- Woodrow, Lindy
- Venue
- International Perspectives on Motivation
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 2013
- Pages
- 117-132
- OpenAlex
- W2503515181
- Cited by
- 7
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 2.78
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education Research Studies
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Keywords
- student motivation, English for academic purposes, international students, foundation programs, transition to college, academic performance, English-medium instruction, undergraduate education
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