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Description
Language mindsets play a crucial role in learners’ motivation and achievement in foreign language learning. Despite this, language learners’ mindsets and potential factors affecting language learners’ mindsets regarding specific linguistic skills remain underexplored. This study aimed to explore what contextual factors might influence Vietnamese tertiary students’ English as a Foreign Language (EFL) speaking mindsets. The study surveyed 560 non-majored English undergraduates at a public university, using two open-ended questions as self-reflection. The data were analyzed and interpreted based on ecological system theory framework. The findings revealed that factors affecting university students’ mindsets about EFL speaking were found at different levels, comprising microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem and macrosystem. This study extends current literature and offers implications for English language pedagogy.
Biography
Nguyen Thi Bich Nhi has been working as a lecturer of English in the College of Environment and Natural Resources at Can Tho University for over 20 years. She
has taught various courses in English for diverse learners (general English courses, ESP courses in Environment, Commercial English courses, English courses for children and adults). She is also a PhD student at Can Tho University. Her published work deals
with learner autonomy.
