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Table 1 Coding procedure for participant interviews

From: Charting the motivation, self-efficacy beliefs, language learning strategies, and achievement of multilingual university students learning Arabic as a foreign language

Week

Student

Data

Domain

Category

Subcategory

LLM

SEB

39F

Hilde

The teachers make Quizlet sets [1] for each of the vocabulary lessons. It’s good [2] because you see the word as well as you could say it out loud [1]. I like [2] to combine seeing the word and hearing it and saying [1]. I find, especially when it comes to the vocab stuff, like, since I have had, like, zero experience, no experience with Arabic previously [3] or any other similar language [3], there is no overlap with vocabulary [3], and so I find that the only way for me to remember [4] is either to basically look at it many times and listen to it [1]

[1]Mesogenetic

[2]Mesogenetic

[3]Ontogenetic

[4]Mesogenetic

[1]LLS

[2]LLM

[3]SEB

[4]SEB

[1]Memory

[1]Cognitive

[1]Metacognitive

[2]Digital Tool

[2]Vocabulary

[2]Affect[+]

[3]MC

[3]Vocabulary

[4]Vocabulary

5

3.3

7S

Talia

I got like the ding feeling in my head [1,3] where I feel like ‘oh it makes sense’ [3] and I just really got into it [1]. Sometimes I feel like I know a lot of Arabic [3] and feel like if you put me in an Arab country, I would be able to survive or whatever [3]. Like I was watching some music with my cousin, and I was like ‘in Arabic, it would be this and this’ [2]. Sometimes I am very engaged [1]. And I just translated everything that we were hearing and seeing [2]. Sometimes it’s fun [1] and other times I wonder if I’ve learned any Arabic at all [1,2,3]

[1]Microgenetic

[2]Microgenetic

[3]Microgenetic

[1]LLM

[2]LLS

[3]SEB

[1]Affect[+]

[1]Affect[−]

[1]Cognition

[2]MC

[2]Cognitive

[2]Metacognitive

[3]General

[3]Listening

[3]Speaking

4.7

3.3

  1. F fall; S spring; SEB self-efficacy beliefs; LLM language learning motivation; LLS language learning strategies; MC multilingual competence