A Qualitative Evaluation of the Impact of Online Visually-Based L2 Acquisition on College Students’ Risk-Taking, Motivation, and Anxiety | ||
| جستارهای زبانی | ||
| Article 11, Volume 13, Issue 5 - Serial Number 71, 1401, Pages 281-301 PDF (719.89 K) | ||
| Document Type: مقاله تحقیق | ||
| DOI: 10.52547/LRR.13.5.11 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Liqaa Habeb Al-Obaydi1; Marcel Pikhart* 2 | ||
| 1English Department, College of Education for Human Sciences, University of Diyala, Iraq | ||
| 2Department of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The paper deals with the topic of visually based L2 acquisition in higher education and evaluates the impact of the use of visual images based on Kolb´s theory of experiential learning. It evaluates its impact on the students´ risk-taking, motivation and anxiety. The research was conducted at the English Department of the University of Diyala, Iraq. The total number of participants was forty (n = 40) and they all were first-year students at English Department. The research was conducted by using guided interviews through the Google Meet platform. The main idea of the research was to evaluate how much will experiential learning, via the reading pictures technique, influence college students’ risk-taking, motivation, and anxiety. The research results show that students’ motivation and risk-taking were affected positively by using pictures. It further shows that the classroom anxiety of the students was less affected than the other two variables | ||
| Keywords | ||
| L2 acquisition; foreign language learning; EFL; ESL; risk-taking; Motivation; Anxiety; applied linguistics; Psycholinguistics | ||
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