Brauer Kay, Barabadi Elyas, Aghaee Elham, Alrabai Fakieh, Elahi Shirvan Majid, Sendatzki Rebekka, Vierow Linnea Marie
Department of Psychology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bojnord, Bojnord, Iran.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jan 9;13:1060091. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1060091. eCollection 2022.
The Impostor Phenomenon (IP) describes experiences of perceived intellectual fraudulence despite the existence of objectively good performances, and it is a robust predictor of experiences and outcomes in higher education. We examined the role of the IP in the domain of second language (L2) acquisition by testing its relations with a robust predictor of L2 use, willingness to communicate (WTC). We collected self-reports of 400 adult Iranian L2 learners and tested the associations between the IP and WTC. As expected, we found a negative association between IP and WTC ( = -0.13). When testing a mediation model with perceived competence and communication anxiety as parallel mediators, we found evidence for full mediation perceived competence. Our findings show the importance of considering self-evaluations in the domain of L2 acquisition. Further implications and limitations are discussed.
冒名顶替现象（IP）描述的是尽管有客观上良好的表现，但仍感觉自己存在智力欺诈的经历，它是高等教育中经历和结果的有力预测指标。我们通过测试冒名顶替现象与二语（L2）使用的有力预测指标——交流意愿（WTC）之间的关系，研究了冒名顶替现象在二语习得领域中的作用。我们收集了400名成年伊朗二语学习者的自我报告，并测试了冒名顶替现象与交流意愿之间的关联。正如预期的那样，我们发现冒名顶替现象与交流意愿之间存在负相关（r = -0.13）。当以感知能力和交流焦虑作为平行中介来测试中介模型时，我们发现了感知能力完全中介的证据。我们的研究结果表明，在二语习得领域考虑自我评估很重要。文中还讨论了进一步的意义和局限性。
