- Motivation and attitude towards L2 learning (French) (.93)
- Motivation and desire to learn the L2 (.92)
- Motivation and performance (.52)
- Performance and L2 vocabulary knowledge (.88)
- Integrative orientation (motivation) and interest towards the corresponding L2
(.91)
- Importance of the subjects’ objectives and of the students’ awareness of those
objectives (.90)
- Attitudes towards the learning situations and evaluation of the subject (1)
- Performance and grades obtained in the L2 (.89)
- Teacher’s performance and students’ anxiety (.94)
- Teacher’s performance and students’ level of competence (.83)
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In a more recent study, Temblay and Gardner have demonstrated the following
hypotheses (1995: 50) as regards French as a Second Language (1995: 50):
- The student’s degree of motivation has a direct bearing on his/her
performance.
- The student’s motivational antecedents, termed “relevance of the goal”,
“valency”, or “desire to attain the goal”, and “awareness of self-efficiency”
exert a direct influence on his/her degree of motivation.
- The student’s “adaptive” attribution clearly affects his/her “self-efficiency.”
- The attitudes towards the L2 have a distinct impact on the previous
motivational antecedents.
- L2 mastery (French) has a direct effect on “adaptive” attributions.