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The Influence of College Students’ Spoken-English Self-esteem on IELTS Speaking Performance under the Social Comparison Theory
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Abstract
Nowadays, the Chinese IELTS speaking level is lower than that of other modules, such as reading, writing, and listening. It can be improved by expanding the way of learning spoken English through TikTok's app. The group of College students is a key time when the ideological concept is gradually mature and gradually know themselves, and learning spoken English in this software environment may produce the psychological behaviour of social comparison, it may produce spoken-English low self-esteem and affect the IELTS speaking performance. In order to study the impact of spoken-English low self-esteem on IELTS speaking performance, this paper will understand the basic theories through the existing research literature on Social Comparison Theory, the emotion of foreign language learning, academic performance and so on, and summarize the reasons for social comparison in real learning life. A conclusion that from the social and academic dimensions, college students are compared with different users through this short video interaction and push function, and self-cognitive bias leads to spoken-English low self-esteem, which positively or negatively affects attention, pressure, social willingness and self-confidence by affecting learning efficiency and motivation, resulting in a positive or negative correlation between IELTS performance and oral low self-esteem. The purpose of this paper is to extend the research on the foreign language learning emotions and IELTS-specific modules and to provide reasonable learning suggestions for college students learning IELTS speaking in an online environment.
Keywords
IELTS, Self-abasement, Spoken-English, Score, TikTok.
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Wu,Y. (2024). The Influence of College Students’ Spoken-English Self-esteem on IELTS Speaking Performance under the Social Comparison Theory. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,73,60-66.
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