Students' attitudes to classroom English learning: a cross-cultural study

By W. Littlewood. 2001

164 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Social Psychology

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1. Zhengdong Gan
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3. R. Lloyd
4. Li-hua Xiao

Citations in the corpus

• ‘Asian learners’ re-examined: an empirical study of language learning attitudes, strategies and motivation among mainland Chinese and Hong Kong students (2009, background): “Another observation the present author has made about the previous empirical studies on Asian learners is that most of these studies on Asian learners (e.g. Horwitz 1999; Littlewood 2001; Rao 2006; Shi 2006) mainly employed quantitative methods.”
• Exploring the Gender Effect on EFL Learners' Beliefs about Language Learning. (2007, background): “…learners from Confucian Heritage Cultures such as Chinese, reveal a collective-oriented national cultural trait in a learning context (Contazzi & Jin, 1996; Littlewood, 2001), and may perceive the learning task and the nature of knowledge differently to other cultures (Ballard & Clanchy, 1991).”
• Bridging the Gap Between Teaching Styles and Learning Styles: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (2006, background): “ Littlewood (2001) describes Chinese college students in Hong Kong as having a typical social achievement motivation, characterized in a collectivist-oriented culture, that is, they are motivated to succeed because success would bring prestige and other benefits to their families.”
• Help seeking, self-efficacy, and writing performance among college students (2011, unknown): “…Asian and European students’ preferences (e.g., working in a small group or working alone), WILLIAMS & TAKAKU HELP SEEKING AND WRITING PERFORMANCE | 4 Littlewood (2001), for example, found that Asian students preferred to work in a small group and that European student preferred to work alone.”