Research

Publications

Below are references to my dissertaion, some papers in refereed journals and book chapters that I have authored or co-authored. (PDFs are for personal use only)

My Dissertation

Noels, K. A. (1996). Language, identity and stress: A situated approach to acculturation (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing. PDF

My CV

ORCID Page

Papers in Refereed Journals

  • Pagé, L.L., & Noels, K.A. (2024). Family language policy retention across generations: The relations between childhood language policies, multilingualism experiences, and future language policies in multilingual Canadian emerging adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1394027. PDF
  • Parrish, A., Noels, K. A., Zhang. X. (2024) Self-determination across the secondary-school years: how teachers and curriculum policy affect language learners’ motivation. The Language Learning Journal. PDF
  • Lou, N., & Noels, K.A. (2024). Striving to reach the “native speaker standard”: The role of language mindsets in migrant students. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 101, 101990. PDF
  • Lou, N. M., Noels, K. A., Kurl, S., Zhang, Y. S. D., & Young-Leslie, H. (2023). COVID discrimination experience: Chinese Canadians’ social identities moderate the effect of personal and group discrimination on well-being. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 29(2), 132–144. PDF
  • Noels, Kimberly A., Adrian-Taylor, S., Saumure, K.D., & Katz, J.W. (2019). Motivation and the support of significant others across language learning contexts. International Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 1, 106-141. PDF
  • Dincer, A., Yesilyurt, S., Noels, K. A., & Vargas Lascano, D. I. (2019). Self-determination and classroom engagement of EFL learners: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Self-System Model of Motivational Development. Sage Open, 9, 1-15. PDF
  • Lou, N. M., & Noels, K. A. (2019). Western and heritage cultural internalizations predict EFL students’ language motivation and confidence. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 1-15. PDF
  • Kil, H., Noels, K. A., Vargas Lascano, D. I., & Schweickart, O. (2019). English Canadians’ cultural stereotypes of ethnic minority groups: Implications of stereotype content for acculturation ideologies and immigration attitudes. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 70, 104-118, doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2019.03.005.
  • Noels, K. A., Vargas Lascano, D. I., & Saumure, K. (2019). The development of self-determination across the language course: Trajectories of motivational change and the dynamic interplay of psychological needs, orientations, and engagement. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 41(4). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263118000189
  • Zhang, R., Noels, K. A., & Lalonde, R. N. (2018). Know your heritage: Exploring the effects of fit in cultural knowledge on Chinese Canadians’ heritage identification. Frontiers In Psychology: Cultural Psychology, 9, 1-19, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02100.
  • Chaffee, K. E., Lou, N. M., Noels, K. A., & Katz, J. (2018). Why don’t “real men” learn languages? Masculinity threat and gender ideology suppress men’s language learning motivation. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 1-18, doi:https://.org/10.1177/1368430219835025
  • Lou, N. M., Chaffee, K. E., Vargas-Lascano, D. I., Dincer, A. & Noels, K. A. (2018). Complementary perspectives on autonomy in Self-determination theory (SDT) and language learner autonomy (LLA). TESOL Quarterly. doi:10.1002/tesq.403
  • Comanaru, R. S., Noels, K. A., & Dewaele, J.-M. (2017). Bicultural identity orientation of immigrants to Canada. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 39, 526-541. doi:10.1080/01434632.2017.1404069
  • Lou, N. M., & Noels, K. (2017). Measuring language mindsets and modeling their relations with goal orientations and emotional and behavioural responses in failure situations. Modern Language Journal, 101, 22–33. doi:10.1111/modl.12380
  • Lou, N. M., & Noels, K. A. (2017). Sensitivity to language-based rejection in intercultural communication: The role of language mindsets and implications for migrants’ cross-cultural adaptation. Applied Linguistics. doi:10.1093/applin/amx047
  • Zhang, R., Noels, K. A., Guan, Y., & Weng, L. (2017). Making sense of positive self-evaluations in China: The role of sociocultural change. European Journal of Social Psychology, 47, 36-52. doi:10.1002/ejsp.2214
  • Zhang, R., Noels, K. A., Lalonde, R. A., & Salas, S. A. (2017). Self-consistency in bicultural persons: Dialectical self-beliefs mediate the relation between identity integration and self-consistency. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 321. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00321
  • Fung, H. H., Ho, Y. W., Zhang, R., Zhang, X., Noels, K. A., & Tam, K.-P. (2016). Age differences in personal values: Universal or cultural specific?. Psychology and Aging. Advance online publication. doi:10.1037/pag0000082
  • Lou, M., & Noels, K. (2016). Changing language mindsets: Implications for goal orientations and responses to failure in and outside the second language classroom. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 46, 22-33. doi:10.1016/j.cedpsych.2016.03.004
  • Noels, K. A., Chaffee, K. E., Lou, N. M, & Dincer, A. (2016). Self-­determination, engagement, and identity in learning German: Some directions in the psychology of language learning motivation. Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen, 45(2), 12–29.
  • Lou, M., & Noels, K. (2016). Changing language mindsets: Implications for goal orientations and responses to failure in and outside the second language classroom. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 46, 22-33. doi:10.1016/j.cedpsych.2016.03.004
  • Noels, K.A., & Clement, R. (2015). Situational variations in ethnic identity across immigration generations: Implications for acculturative change and cross-cultural adaptation. International Journal of Psychology, 50, 451-662. PDF
  • Noels, K.A., & Lou, M. (2015). Mindsets, goal orientations and language learning: What we know and what we can do. Contact – Refereed Proceedings of TESL Ontario Research Symposium, 41(2), 41-52. PDF
  • Noels, K.A., Kil, H., Fang, Y. (2014). Ethnoliguistic orientation and language variation: measuring and archiving ethnoliguistic vitality, attitudes and identity. Language and Linguistics Compass. 8. 618-628.PDF
  • Sugita McEown, M., Noels, K.A., Saumure, K.D. (2014). Students’ self-determined and integrative orientations and teachers’ motivational support in a Japanese as a foreign language context. System.45. 227-241.PDF
  • Chaffee,K.E., Noels, K.A., Sugita,M (2014). Learning from authoritarian teachers: controlling the situation or controlling yourself can sustain motivation. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching.4. 355-387PDF
  • Noels, K.A. (2014). Language variation and ethnic Identity. Language and Communication,35 88-96. PDF
  • Zhang, R., & Noels, K. A. (2013). When ethnic identities vary: Cross-situation and within situation variation, authenticity, and well-being. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology,44 (4), 552-573. PDF
  • Yang, R. P.-J., & Noels, K.A. (2012). The possible selves of international students and their cross-cultural adjustment. International Journal of Psychology, 47,1-8. PDF
  • Noels, K.A., Leavitt, P., & Clément, R. (2010). “To see ourselves as others see us”: On the implications of reflected appraisals for ethnic identity and discrimination. Journal of Social Issues, 64, 740-758. PDF
  • Yashima, T., Noels, K.A., Shizuka, T., Takeuchi, O., Yamane, S., & Yoshizawa, K. (2009). The interplay of classroom anxiety, intrinsic motivation and gender in the Japanese EFL context. Journal of Foreign Language Education and Research, 17, 41-64.PDF
  • Comanaru, R., & Noels, K.A. (2009). Self-determination, motivation, and the learning of Chinese as a heritage language. Canadian Modern Language Review, 66, 131-158.PDF
  • Barker, V., Giles, Hajek, C., Ota, H., Noels, K., Lim, T.-S., & Somera, L. (2008). Police-civilian interaction, compliance, accommodation, and trust in an intergroup context: International data. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 1, 93-112.PDF
  • Yang, R.P.-J., Noels, K.A., & Saumure, K.D. (2006). Multiple routes to cross-cultural adaptation for international students: Mapping the paths between self-construals, English language confidence, and adjustment. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. 30, 487-506. PDF
  • Adrian-Taylor, S.R., Noels, K.A., & Tischler, K. (2007). Conflict between international graduate students and faculty supervisors: Towards effective conflict prevention and management strategies. Journal of Studies in International Education. 11,90-117.PDF
  • Wohl, M.J.A., Kuiken, D., & Noels, K.A. (2006). Three ways to forgive: A numerically-aided phenomenological study. British Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 547-561.PDF
  • Yang, R.P.-J., Noels, K.A., & Saumure, K.D. (2006). Multiple routes to cross-cultural adaptation for international students: Mapping the paths between self-construals, English language confidence, and adjustment. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. 30, 487-506.PDF
  • Goldberg, E., & Noels, K.A. (2006). Motivation, ethnic identity and post-secondary education language choices of graduates of intensive French language programs. Canadian Modern Language Review. 62(3), 423-447.PDF
  • Noels, K.A. (2005). Orientations to learning German: Heritage background and motivational processes. Canadian Modern Language Review, 62, 285-312.PDF
  • Clément, R., Baker, S.C., Josephson, G., & Noels, K.A. (2005). Second language media effects on ethnic identity among minority and majority students in a bilingual context. Human Communication Research, 31, 399-422.PDF
  • Bond, M.H., Leung, K., Au, A., Tong, K., de Carrasquel, S.R., Murakami, F., Yamaguchi, S., Singleis, T.M., Broer, M., Boen, F., Lambert, S.M., Ferreira, M.C., Noels, K.A.,van Bavel, J., Safdar, S., Zhang, J., Chen, L., Solcova, I., Stetovska, I., Niit, T., Hurme, H., Franchi, V., Magradze, G., Javakhisvili, N., Klinger, E., Huang, X., Fulop, M., Berkics, M., Panagiotopoulou, P.; Sriram, S., Chaudhary, N., Ghosh, A., Vohra, N., Iqbal, D.F., Kurman, J., Comunian, A.L., Son, K.E., Austers, I., Harb, C., Odusanya, J.O.T., Ahmed, Z.A., Ismail, R., van de Vijver, F., Ward, C., Mogaji, A., Sam, D.L., Khan, M.J.Z., Canabnillas, W.E., SyCip, L., Neto, F., Cabecinhas, R., Xavier, P., Dinca, M., Lebedeva, N. Viskochil, A.,Ponomareva, O., Burgess, S.M., Oceja, L., Campo, S., Hwang, K.K., D’souza, J.B., Ataca, B., Furnham, A., Lewis, J.R. (2004). Culture-level dimensions of social axioms and their correlates across 41 cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 35, 548-570.PDF
  • McIntosh, C., & Noels, K.A. (2004). Self-determined motivation for language learning: The role of need for cognition and language learning strategies. Zeitshrift für Interculturellen Fremdsprachunterricht.Link
  • Giles, H., Noels, K.A., Williams, A., Lim, T.-S., Ng, S.H., Ryan, E.B., Somera, L., & Ota, H. (2003). Intergenerational communication across cultures: Young people’s perceptions of conversations with family elders, non-family elders, and same-age peers. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 18, 1-32. PDF
  • Giles, H., Kutchukhides, M., Yagmur, K., & Noels, K.A. (2003). Age vitality perceptions of young Canadian, Turkish and Georgian urban and rural adults. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 24, 17-13. PDF
  • Harwood, J., Giles, H., McCann, R. M., Cai, D., Somera, L. P., Ng, S. H., Gallois, C., & Noels, K.A. (2001). Older adults’ trait ratings of three age-groups around the Pacific Rim. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 16, 157-171.PDF
  • Giles, H., Noels, K.A., Ota, H., Ng, S.-H., Gallois, C., Ryan, E.B., Williams, A., Lim, T.-S., Somera, L., Tao, H., & Sachdev, I. (2000). Age vitality across eleven nations. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 21, 308-323.PDF
  • Abouguendia, M., & Noels, K.A. (2001). General and acculturation-related daily hassles and psychological adjustment in first- and second-generation South Asian immigrants to Canada. International Journal of Psychology, 36(3), 163-173.PDF
  • Noels, K.A. (2001). Learning Spanish as a second language: Students’ orientations and Perceptions of teachers’ communicative style. Language Learning, 51, 107-144.PDF
  • Clément, R., Noels, K.A., & Denault, B. (2001). Inter-ethnic contact, identity, and psychological adjustment: The mediating and moderating roles of communication. Journal of Social Issues, 57 , 559-577. PDF
  • Noels, K.A., Clément, R., & Pelletier, L. (2001). Intrinsic, extrinsic, and integrative orientations of French Canadian learners of English. Canadian Modern Language Review, 57 , 424-442.PDF
  • Noels, K. A., Pelletier, L., Clément, R., & Vallerand, R.J. (2000). Why are you learning a second language? Orientations and Self-Determination Theory. Language Learning, 50 , 57-85.PDF
  • Noels, K. A., Pelletier, L., & Clément, R. (1999). Perceptions of teacher communicative style and students’ intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Modern Language Journal, 83 , 23-34.PDF
  • Clément, R., MacIntyre, P.D., Dörnyei, Z., & Noels, K.A. (1998). Conceptualizing willingness to communicate in a second language: a situational model of second language confidence and affiliation. Modern Language Journal, 82 , 545-562. PDF
  • MacIntyre, P.D., Noels, K.A., & Clément, R. (1997). Biases in self-ratings of second language proficiency: the role of anxiety. Language Learning, 47, 265-287.PDF
  • MacIntyre, P.D., & Noels, K.A. (1996). Using social-psychological variables to predict the use of language learning strategies. Foreign Language Annals, 29 , 373-386. PDF
  • Damji, T., Clément, R., & Noels, K.A. (1996). Variability in ethnic identity and psychological adjustment. Journal of Social Psychology, 136 , 493-500. PDF
  • Noels, K.A., Pon, G., & Clément, R. (1996). Language, identity and adjustment: The role of linguistic self-confidence in the acculturation process. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 15, 246-264.PDF
  • oels, K.A., & Clément, R. (1996). Communicating across cultures: Social Determinants and acculturative consequences. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 28, 214-228.PDF
  • Clément, R., Dörnyei, Z., & Noels, K.A. (1994). Motivation and the foreign language classroom: A study of Hungarians learning English. Language Learning, 44, 417-448. PDF
  • Clément, R., Gauthier, R., & Noels, K.A. (1993). Choix langagiers en milieu minoritaire: attitudes et identité concomitantes. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 25 , 149-164. PDF
  • Clément, R., & Noels, K.A. (1992). Towards a situated approach to ethnolinguistic identity: The effects of status on individuals and groups. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 11, 203-232. PDF
  • Clément, R., Sylvestre, A., & Noels, K.A. (1991). Modes d’acculturation et identité située: le cas des immigrants haitiens de Montréal. études ethniques canadiennes, 23 , 81-94. PDF
  • Moïse, L. C., Clément, R., & Noels, K. A. (1990). Aspects motivationnels de l’apprentissage de l’espagnol au niveau universitaire. Canadian Modern Language Review, 46, 689-705. PDF
  • Noels, K. A. & Clément, R.(1989). Orientation to learning German: the effects of language heritage on second-language acquisition. Canadian Modern Language Review, 45, 224-257. PDF

Chapters in Books

  • Noels, K. A. (2023). Self-determination theory and language learning. In R. M. Ryan (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of self-determination theory (pp. 619-637). Oxford: Oxford University Press. PDF
  • Noels, K.A., Lou, N.M., Vargas-Lascano, D. I. , Chaffee, K. E., Dincer, A., Zhang, Y.S.D, & Zhang, X. (2019). Self-determination and motivated engagement in language learning. Lamb, M., Cziser, K., Henry, A., & Ryan, S. (Eds.). Handbook of Motivation for Language Learning (pp. 1-10). London, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Lou, N.M., & Noels, K.A. (2019). Language mindsets, meaning-making, and motivation. Lamb, M., Cziser, K., Henry, A., & Ryan, S. (Eds.). The Palgrave MacMillan Handbook of Motivation for Language Learning (pp. 1-25). London, UK: Palgrave MacMillan. PDF
  • Noels, K.A. Clement, R., Collins, K., & MacIntyre, P. (2019). Language and culture. In Harwood, J., Gasiorek, J., Pierson, H., NussBaum, J. F., & Gallois, C. (Eds.). Language, communication, and intergroup relations: A celebration of the scholarship of Howard Giles. (pp. 19-33). New York: Routledge. PDF
  • Noels, K. A., & Berry, J. W. (2016). Acculturation in Canada.  In D. Sam & J.W. Berry (Eds.) Cambridge handbook of acculturation psychology. (2nd Edition).  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. PDF
  • Noels, K.A. (2015). Supporting students’ self-­determined motivation to learn languages. Contact: English Language Learning Magazine, 41, 21-­32. PDF
  • Sugita McEown, M., Noels, K.A., & Chaffee, K.E. (2014). The Interface between the Socio-Educational Model, Self-Determination Theory, and the L2 Motivational System Model. To appear in K. Cziser and M. Magid (Eds.) The Impact of Self Concept on Second Language Acquisition. PDF
  • Noels, K.A., Chaffee, K.E., Michalyk, M., Sugita McEown, M.(2014).Culuture, autonomy and the self in language learning.To appear in K. Cziser and M. Magid (Eds.) The Impact of Self Concept on Second Language Acquisition. . PDF
  • Noles, K.A. (2013). Identity theory. To appear in P. Robison (Eds) The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.PDF
  • Noels, K.A. (2013). Self, Identity, and Motivation in the Development and Maintenance of German as a Heritage Language. To appear in C. Mady and K. Arnett (Eds.) Minority Populations in Second Language Education. Bristol, UK. Multilingual Matters.PDF
  • Noels, K.A., Yashima, T., & Zhang, R. (2012). Language, identity and intercultural communication. In J. Jackson (Ed.) Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication. (pp. 52-66). New York: Routledge.PDF
  • MacIntyre, P.D., Noels, K.A., & Moore, B. (2010). Perspectives on motivation in second language acquisition: Lessons from the Ryoanji Garden. Selected Proceedings of the 2008 Second Language Research Forum. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. PDF
  • Noels, K.A., & Giles, H. (2009). Social identity and language learning. In W. Ritchie & T. Bhatia (Eds.) The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition. (pp. 647-670). Bingley, UK: Emerald.PDF
  • Noels, K.A. (2009). The internalization of language learning into the self and social identity. In Z. Dörnyei & E. Ushioda (Eds.) Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self. (pp.295-313). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.PDF
  • Clément, R., Noels, K.A., & MacIntyre, P.D. (2007). Three variations on the social psychology of bilinguality: Context effects in motivation, usage and identity. In A. Weatherall, B. Watson & C. Gallois (Eds.) Language, Discourse and Social Psychology. (p. 51-77). Melbourne, Australia: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Noels, K. A. & Stephan, S.(2007). Supporting the motivation of heritage and nonheritage learners of German. In L. Christoph, J. L. Plews & C. L. Rieger (Eds.). Intercultural literacies and German in the classroom(30-48). Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. PDF
  • Noels, K. A., & Berry, J. W. (2006). Acculturation in Canada. In J.W. Berry, D. Sam, & A. Rogers (Eds.) Cambridge handbook of acculturation psychology. (pp. 274-293). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. PDF
  • Noels, K.A., Clément, R., & Gaudet, S. (2004). Language and the situated nature of ethnic identity. In Ng, S.H., Candlin, C.N., & Chiu C.Y. (Eds.). Language Matters: Culture, Identity and Communication. (pp.245-266) Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press. PDF
  • Noels, K.A., Giles, H., & LePoire, B. (2003). Language and communication processes. In M.A. Hogg & J. Cooper (Eds.). The Sage Handbook of Social Psychology. (pp. 232-257). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.PDF
  • Noels, K.A. (2001). New orientations in language learning motivation: Towards a model of intrinsic, extrinsic and integrative orientations. In Z. Dörnyei & R. Schmidt (Eds.) Motivation and second language acquisition (pp. 43-68). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Centre.