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Task complexity, student perceptions of vocabulary learning in EFL, and task performance.

Xiaoli Wu1, Joost Lowyck, Lies Sercu

  • 1Centre for Instructional Psychology and Technology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, K. U. Leuven, Belgium.

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Student self-efficacy beliefs and prior knowledge significantly impact English vocabulary learning strategies and performance. Self-efficacy indirectly influences performance through strategy use, highlighting its mediating role.

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Area of Science:

  • Educational Psychology
  • Second Language Acquisition

Background:

  • Examines student self-efficacy beliefs in English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching.
  • Focuses on a cognitive mediational paradigm at a task-specific level.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate relationships between task complexity, self-efficacy, prior knowledge, learning strategies, and performance.
  • Specifically analyzes English vocabulary acquisition through reading tasks.

Main Methods:

  • 120 Chinese university students participated.
  • Experimental design with simple/complex task conditions.
  • Measured prior vocabulary knowledge, self-efficacy, learning strategies, and performance using MANOVA and path analysis.

Main Results:

  • Prior vocabulary knowledge significantly affected self-efficacy, strategy use, and performance.
  • Task complexity alone had no significant effect, but interacted with vocabulary level.
  • Self-efficacy beliefs indirectly influenced task performance, mediated by learning strategy use.

Conclusions:

  • Student prior knowledge is critical for self-efficacy and task performance.
  • Self-efficacy's predictive power on performance is linked to its association with learning strategy use.