L1/L2 communication self-efficacy beliefs and the contribution of personality

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While mainstream psychology has made significant advances into the understanding of personality, applied linguistics research has offered a more muted response (Dörnyei and Ryan 2015 Dörnyei, Z. and S. Ryan. 2015. The Psychology of the Language Learner Revisited. New York: Routledge.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) despite Bandura (2001 Bandura, A. 2001. Social cognitive theory: an agentic perspective. Annual Review of Psychology 52, no. 1: 1–26.[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]: 10) declaring that self-efficacy beliefs represent ‘the foundation of human agency’. The study documented within this article therefore examines the contribution of personality traits from the five-factor model of personality to L1 (Japanese) and L2 (English) communication self-efficacy beliefs within a population of 300 Japanese university students. Through self-assessments drawn in relation to a hypothetical L1 and L2 interview encounter, and following a two-step process of hierarchical regression, the article shows to what extent personality traits make differentiated contributions to L1 and L2 communication self-efficacy beliefs.

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