The experience of uncertainty in foreign language learning within dynamic systems framework
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Tarih
2019
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
People experience uncertainty in every aspect of life and researchers have investigated the concept in
domains of psychology and communication in various contexts such as decision-making, health
contexts, business, organizational settings and relational issues. Uncertainty is also a key concept in
educational settings as it is unavoidable in life and it is a natural characteristic of learning contexts.
Thus, it seems significant to expand our understandings of how students experience uncertainty while
language learning. From the complex dynamic systems perspective, language learning is characterized
as meaning making and this process of meaning making involves uncertain situations. This study was
designed to investigate how language learners experience uncertainty; that is how they appraise
uncertainty and how they feel in uncertain situations. As the language classrooms are emergent, selforganizing systems, uncertainty stems from various sources in different forms. In order to find out about
language learners’ uncertainty experiences multiple data sources were employed. The results revealed
that uncertainty was a pervasive experience for language learners. They experienced uncertainty related
to the course, cognitive processes, and social factors and they develop positive and negative
appreciations of uncertainty.
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Anahtar Kelimeler
uncertainty experiences, complex dynamic system, course related uncertainty, cognitive uncertainty, social uncertainty
Kaynak
folklor edebiyat
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Cilt
25
Sayı
97
Künye
Dagtas, Aysun. Sahinkarakas, Şehnaz. (2019). The experience of uncertainty in foreign language learning within dynamic systems framework. Folkloredebiyat Literature, 97(1), 306-319.
