JALT2025 - Tokyo

Adapting Causality Orientations Theory for English education

Nov 1, 2025, 6:45 PM

30m

National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

Research-oriented Presentation (30-minutes) Psychology and Language Learning Room 509

Speaker

Ms Yuka Kono (Waseda University)

Description

The School Causality Orientations Scale (SCOS), adapted from the General Causality Orientations Scale (Deci & Ryan, 1985), measures students' motivational orientations (i.e., autonomy, controlled, impersonal) in Japanese university contexts. Despite many studies on Self-Determination Theory and language education, Causality Orientations Theory, one of SDT’s mini-theories, has been largely ignored until today. As a first step to address this gap, the authors share the results of focus groups they conducted as part of the scale's validation.

Summary

The School Causality Orientations Scale (SCOS), adapted from the General Causality Orientations Scale (Deci & Ryan, 1985), measures students' motivational orientations (i.e., autonomy, controlled, impersonal) in Japanese university contexts. Despite many studies on Self-Determination Theory and language education, Causality Orientations Theory, one of SDT’s mini-theories, has been largely ignored until today. As a first step to address this gap, the authors share the results of focus groups they conducted as part of the scale's validation.