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Kutuk, G, Putwain, DW, Kaye, L and Garrett, B (2021) Relations Between Gender Stereotyping and Foreign Language Attainment: The Mediating Role of Language Learners’ Anxiety and Self-Efficacy. British Journal of Educational Psychology. ISSN 0007-0998
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Abstract
Background: Gender stereotyping of academic domains has long been a major issue in education. However, previous research has mainly focused on male-dominated fields and women’s disadvantage in such fields. Little attention has been paid to the fields of study, such as foreign language learning, which are typically stereotyped as female domains.
Aims: This study aimed to investigate whether relations between (1) learners’ gender stereotypes about English as a foreign language (EFL) learning and language attainment, and (2) learner perceptions of teacher stereotypes of EFL learning and language attainment were mediated by anxiety and self-efficacy.
Sample: Data were collected from 701 university students (Mage = 19.7 years, 49.4% male) learning EFL in three Turkish universities.
Method: Data were collected over three waves. Multi-group structural equation modelling approach was used to analyse the data.
Results: Results showed the relations between learners’ gender stereotypes about EFL learning and language attainment was mediated by self-efficacy. Self-efficacy also mediated the relationship between learner perceptions of teacher stereotypes of EFL learning and language attainment, but only for women. Language anxiety was not a mediator between gender stereotypes and attainment in either model tested.
Conclusions: Findings show that gender stereotypes about EFL learning might affect learners’ language attainment by altering their self-efficacy. Helping learners to maximise their self-efficacy will therefore be beneficial for their language attainment.
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| Additional Information: | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Kutuk, G., Putwain, D.W., Kaye, L.K. and Garrett, B. (2022), Relations between gender stereotyping and foreign language attainment: The mediating role of language learners’ anxiety and self-efficacy. Br J Educ Psychol e12446 which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12446. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1303 Specialist Studies in Education, 1701 Psychology |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | Education |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jul 2021 09:28 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2022 00:50 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1111/bjep.12446 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/15241 |
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