The relationship between perceived teacher support and student engagement in Chinese senior high school English classrooms: the mediating role of learning motivation.
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Abstract
Introduction: In the current educational context, student engagement serves as a key indicator of both teaching quality and overall educational effectiveness in senior high school education.
Methods: This study employed structural equation modeling to analyze the self-report questionnaire data from 314 Chinese senior high school students, aiming to examine the relationship between perceived teacher support and student engagement in English classrooms as well as the mediating role of learning motivation (intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation).
Results: The results indicate that perceived teacher support, learning motivation, and student engagement in English learning are generally moderate to high. There is a positive correlation between teacher support, learning motivation, and student engagement. Teacher support significantly predicts student engagement yet learning motivation plays a mediating role in this relationship, with intrinsic motivation having a greater mediating effect than extrinsic motivation.
Discussion: These findings provide valuable insights into how teacher support influences student motivation and engagement, offering practical strategies for improving instructional approaches in senior high school English education.
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Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology. Field Chief Editor Axel Cleeremans at the Free University of Brussels is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide. The journal publishes the best research across the entire field of psychology. Today, psychological science is becoming increasingly important at all levels of society, from the treatment of clinical disorders to our basic understanding of how the mind works. It is highly interdisciplinary, borrowing questions from philosophy, methods from neuroscience and insights from clinical practice - all in the goal of furthering our grasp of human nature and society, as well as our ability to develop new intervention methods.
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