Willingness to communicate in a foreign language in the four skills. Sex and age differences | Disposición a comunicarse en un idioma extranjero en las cuatro destrezas. Diferencias de edad y sexo
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Motivation, FLL, WTC-FL, validation, sex, age | Motivación, validación, sexo, edadResumen
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The object of this research was to validate the Willingness to communicate in a foreign language in the four skills in the Classroom Scale to a Spanish speaking context. Taking the study of authors (in press) as a starting point, this instrument validation will allow to obtain information about the student FLL motivation in CLIL in regular schools. This would allow researchers and teachers to have a valid instrument that provides information about the four language skills in FLL or CLIL programmes. In addition, as part of the construct validity analysis, sex and age differences are explored in order to obtain a student profile regarding Willingness to communicate in a foreign language in the four skills. The WTC-FL in the four skills adaptation was administered to a total of 3355 students from Andalusia aged from 11 to 17 years. After the translation and adaptation processes, item and internal structure analyses were conducted. Other analyses have shown this instrument to be sex-invariant and to have convergent validity. A multi-level model analysis was also conducted in order to study the construct validity, concluding with similar results from similar studies.
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El objetivo de este estudio ha sido la validación de la escala Willingness to communicate in a foreign language in the four skills in the Classroom Scale (escala de disposición a comunicarse en una lengua extranjera en las cuatro destrezas) en un contexto de hispanohablantes. Partiendo del estudio de los autores (en prensa) como punto de partida, la validación de este instrumento permitirá obtener información sobre la motivación en el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras en centros educativos. Todo esto permitirá tanto a investigadores como a profesores tener un instrumento que proporcione información sobre cada una de las destrezas lingüísticas en programas AICLE. Además, como parte del análisis de la validez de constructo, las diferencias en sexo y edad han sido analizadas con la finalidad de obtener un perfil para la DAC en cada una de las cuatro destrezas. El instrumento fue administrado a un total de 3355 estudiantes de Andalucía con edades comprendidas entre los 11 y 17 años. Tras la traducción y procesos de adaptación, se ejecutaron análisis de ítems y estructura interna comparando los modelos de 5 y 7 factores. Esto dio lugar a análisis CFA, fiabilidad y validez que concluyeron el mejor ajuste del modelo de 5 factores. Otros análisis han mostrado la invarianza por sexo y la validez convergente. También se realizó un análisis de modelos multiniveles para estudiar la validez de constructo obteniendo resultados similares a otros estudios.
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