Investigating the Effects of Attributional Retraining Procedures on High School Students’ Foreign Language Causal Attributions and their Foreign Language Achievement

Mohammad Hadi MAHMOODİ; Mehdi DOOSTİ

Article Details

Investigating the Effects of Attributional Retraining Procedures on High School Students’ Foreign Language Causal Attributions and their Foreign Language Achievement

Authors:

Mohammad Hadi MAHMOODİ | Mehdi DOOSTİ

Publisher:

Gazi Yabancı Diller Derneği

Journal:

The Journal of Language Learning and Teaching 2018 Vol.8 Issue 2, pp.28-44

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

6/2018

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000801735

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

pISSN:

2146-1732

Abstract:

 


		
	
	
		

This study investigated the effects of attributional retraining techniques on high
school students’ foreign language causal attributions and foreign language
achievement. To determine the participants’ initial causal attributions, the Revised
Causal Dimension Scale (CDS-II) (McAuley et al. 1992) was distributed among 327
Iranian high school students shortly after they had taken their first English
achievement test. Participants were required to rate their perceived success or failure
by reflecting on their performance on the test based on the dimensions of the CDS-II.
Subsequently, participants in the experimental group received attributional
treatments in videotape format followed by group discussions. At the end of the
semester, the participants in both groups took a final English language achievement
test and the CDS-II again. The findings showed that attribution retraining techniques
are effective in changing the participants’ causal attributions in the predicted
direction and improving their performance on foreign language achievement tests. 

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Article Details

Investigating the Effects of Attributional Retraining Procedures on High School Students’ Foreign Language Causal Attributions and their Foreign Language Achievement

Authors: Mohammad Hadi MAHMOODİ | Mehdi DOOSTİ

Publisher: Gazi Yabancı Diller Derneği

Journal: The Journal of Language Learning and Teaching 2018 Vol.8 Issue 2, pp.28-44

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 6/2018

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000801735

Frequency: Bi-Annual

pISSN: 2146-1732

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Authors:

Mohammad Hadi MAHMOODİ | Mehdi DOOSTİ

Publisher:

Gazi Yabancı Diller Derneği

Journal:

The Journal of Language Learning and Teaching 2018 Vol.8 Issue 2, pp.28-44

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

6/2018

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000801735

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

pISSN:

2146-1732