The Relationship between Language Mindsets and English Proficiency of EFL Learners in Higher Education
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The present study aimed to study the relationship between language mindsets and English proficiency and also to investigate the factors that can influence language mindsets. The samples were 132 ELT learners studying in Faculty of Liberal Arts in a university in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The data was collected by using a questionnaire and a semi - structured interview. The Pearson Correlation was implemented to investigate the relationship between language mindsets and English proficiency. Also, Independent Sample T-test was used to explore the difference between the English proficiency of participants holding a growth language mindset and participants holding a fixed language mindset. Furthermore, the data received from the focus group interview was analyzed by using content analysis to identify the possible factors influencing language mindsets. The findings revealed that there was a significant moderate positive correlation between language mindsets and English proficiency at the significant level of .01. Additionally, there was also a
significant difference between English mean scores from participants holding a growth language mindset and participants holding a fixed language mindset at the significant level of .05. Furthermore, the finding indicated that the interest of language and motivation could be the most dominant factors influencing language mindsets of participants.
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ต้นฉบับที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์ในวารสารคณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยแม่โจ้ ถือเป็นกรรมสิทธิ์ของมหาวิทยาลัยแม่โจ้ ห้ามนำข้อความทั้งหมดหรือบางส่วนไปพิมพ์ซ้ำ เว้นเสียแต่จะได้รับอนุญาตจากมหาวิทยาลัยฯ เป็นลายลักษณ์อักษรReferences
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