Language aptitude and its links with metalinguistic knowledge, self-efficacy, anxiety, and language maintenance in multilingual language teachers

Figures & data

Table 1. Example of the coding process for language maintenance.

Participant	Extract	Codes	Theme
11FU-DE	How do you maintain your level of German? I attend seminars. I read texts on linguistics and listen to Deutsche Welle programs. I also review grammar when preparing for classes. Sometimes, I read materials on German studies on the Internet.	seminar; listen to DW; review grammar; read academic texts; read academic texts online;	passive engagement; active engagement; medium

Note. F = female, U = L1 is Uzbek, DE = teaching German, DW = Deutsche Welle.

Figure 1. Participants’ metalinguistic knowledge, self-efficacy, anxiety, and language aptitude.

Note. N = 89.

Bar graphs are displayed representing participants’ metalinguistic knowledge, anxiety, language aptitude, and self-efficacy. Mean scores are depicted by blue bars, while standard deviation is represented in orange.

Table 2. Participants’ metalinguistic knowledge scores based on language aptitude quartiles.

	Metalinguistic knowledge scores
Language aptitude scores	n	M	SD
1st quartile	22	22.50	12.34
2nd quartile	41	30.12	10.82
3rd quartile	19	35.05	12.42
4th quartile	7	37.29	12.11

Table 3. Regression parameter estimates with participants’ entire linguistic repertoire as the moderator variable.

Variable	B	SE	t	p	LLCI	ULCI	sr	sr^2
Constant	−11.27	5.09	−2.21	.030	−21.40	−1.14	–	–
Metalinguistic knowledge (MK)	.38	.12	3.22	.002	.14	.61	.30	.09
Entire linguistic repertoire (ELR)	−.07	1.76	−.04	.970	−3.56	3.43	−.00	.00
MK * ELR	−.08	.05	−1.46	.148	−.19	.03	−.13	.02
Number of languages taught	4.46	1.35	3.30	.001	1.77	7.14	.30	.09
Self-efficacy	.22	.59	.37	.711	−.95	1.38	.03	.00
Anxiety	1.18	.47	2.50	.014	.24	2.12	.23	.05
Number of languages learned	2.49	1.08	2.31	.024	.34	4.64	.21	.05

Note. LLCI = lower-level confidence interval; ULCI = upper-level confidence interval; sr = semipartial correlations; sr² = squared semipartial correlations_; language aptitude was the outcome variable.