Promoting growth in foreign and second language education: A research agenda for mindsets in language learning and teaching

NM Lou, KA Noels - System, 2019 - Elsevier
Learners' mindsets have received much attention in psychology and education research, but
only recently have foreign/second language acquisition (SLA) researchers begun to study …

Investigating the role of English as a foreign language learners' academic motivation and language mindset in their grit: a theoretical review

Y Liu - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This review made a critical attempt to examine the studies on the role of English as a foreign
language (EFL) learners' academic motivation and growth mindsets in their grit. Some …

Classroom social climate, growth language mindset, and student engagement: The mediating role of boredom in learning English as a foreign language

A Derakhshan, J Fathi, M Pawlak… - Journal of Multilingual and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study aimed to test a model of classroom social climate, growth language mindset,
boredom, and student engagement among English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. In …

Autonomy support predicts language mindsets: Implications for developing communicative competence and willingness to communicate in EFL classrooms

N Zarrinabadi, NM Lou, M Shirzad - Learning and Individual Differences, 2021 - Elsevier
Growth language mindsets, the beliefs that language-learning ability can be cultivated
through effort, are argued as a motivational resource that guides learners to focus on …

The role of STEM professors' mindset beliefs on students' anticipated psychological experiences and course interest.

J LaCosse, MC Murphy, JA Garcia… - Journal of Educational …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Two decades of research consistently demonstrates that students' beliefs about the
malleability of intelligence (also known as “mindsets”) influence their motivation and …

Breaking the vicious cycle of language anxiety: Growth language mindsets improve lower-competence ESL students' intercultural interactions

NM Lou, KA Noels - Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
For migrant students enrolled in a postsecondary institution where the language of
instruction is not their native language, experiencing anxiety using a new language can …

The mindsets× societal norm effect across 78 cultures: Growth mindsets are linked to performance weakly and well‐being negatively in societies with fixed‐mindset …

NM Lou, LMW Li - British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background/Aims Recent research on mindsets has shifted from understanding its
homogenous role on performance to understanding how classroom environments explain its …

Exploring the relations among foreign language enjoyment, ideal L2 self, grit, and growth mindset in EFL learners: A cross-lagged analysis

J Fathi, M Pawlak, M Kruk… - Language Teaching …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study leverages positive psychology (PP) to explore the reciprocal relationships among
foreign language enjoyment (FLE), ideal L2 self, and grit in English major learners of …

“Does my teacher believe I can improve?”: The role of meta-lay theories in ESL learners' mindsets and need satisfaction

NM Lou, KA Noels - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Supporting students' growth mindsets (ie, beliefs that ability can be improved) and basic
psychological needs (ie, needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness) is an important …

Language mindsets, meaning-making, and motivation

NM Lou, KA Noels - The Palgrave handbook of motivation for language …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract “Mindset”, or beliefs concerning whether a psychological characteristic is more or
less malleable, is an influential psychological concept that has had a wide impact on …