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The Role of Sports Activities in Enhancing English Language Learning Motivation: Analysing the Impact
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This study investigates the influence of sports activities on English Language Learning Motivation (ELLM), with a particular focus on how interaction and cooperation within these activities impact students in multilingual environments. Data were collected through surveys administered to 150 students who engaged in sports as part of their ELLM program. Leveraging theories of the interaction hypothesis and cooperative learning, the research examines how real-life communication scenarios in sports—such as teamwork, game instructions, and peer interactions—offer authentic opportunities for language use. These experiences are shown to significantly enhance students' motivation to learn English by increasing language usage frequency and boosting confidence. The study also explores the distinct challenges and opportunities presented by multilingual contexts, demonstrating how sports activities can act as a dynamic tool to mitigate language anxiety and facilitate language acquisition. The results reveal moderate to strong positive correlations between teamwork (r = 0.65), game instructions (r = 0.70), and peer interactions (r = 0.75) with ELLM. ANOVA results indicate significant variations in motivation related to participation in teamwork (F (2, 96) = 12.45, p < 0.01), game instructions (F (2, 97) = 9.32, p = 0.0002), and peer interactions (F (2, 97) = 14.67, p < 0.0001). However, post-hoc analysis suggests that while peer interactions positively affect motivation, the effects of teamwork, game instructions, and peer interactions on motivation do not differ statistically. This paper provides practical insights into integrating sports into language education, advocating for a more engaging and effective learning environment through a blend of theoretical analysis and empirical research, including surveys, interviews, and classroom observations.
María Dolores Molina Poveda, Eduardo Galak
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The advent of cinema brought with it its use as a propaganda device with which to transmit ideals and doctrines. As a result, newsreels and cinema documentaries were born with the aim of showing the «most relevant» news of the country and abroad, the former with a shorter duration. In this study, the Spanish NO-DO and «Sucesos Argentinos» are used as primary sources to interpret the images and imaginaries that were projected between 1943 and 1955 on female physical culture. The intention is to understand the official discourse of both political regimes on what Argentinean and Spanish society should be like, especially by questioning those meanings about women. In total, 69 issues of NO-DO and 14 editions of «Sucesos Argentinos» have been found which aim to show female physical culture in this period. The female physical culture shown in both newsreels was aimed at strengthening women’s bodies so that they could carry out their «natural functions» (mother, wife, housewife), as well as highlighting their «inferiority» in relation to men through lower impact activities and the homogenization of bodies through clothing, and the performance of the same exercises in synchrony. And all this in countries with different regimes, but which, in the end, coincided.
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female physical culture, NO-DO, Sucesos Argentinos, propaganda, audio-visual images
