What Motivates Chinese University Students to Learn Japanese? Understanding Their Motivation in Terms of 'Posture'

doi:10.1111/modl.12546

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	What Motivates Chinese University Students to Learn Japanese? Understanding Their Motivation in Terms of 'Posture'
	Teo, Timothy 1; Hoi, Cathy Ka Weng 2; Gao, Xuesong 3; Lv, Leining 4
刊名	MODERN LANGUAGE JOURNAL
	2019-03
卷号	103 期号:1 页码:327-342
关键词	Japanese learning Chinese university students motivation posture mixed method design
ISSN号	0026-7902
DOI	10.1111/modl.12546
英文摘要	In light of popular nationalism on the rise in China and Japan, this inquiry develops and validates a survey instrument to document university students' motivation to learn Japanese in mainland China and explore how the learning of a foreign language may lead to better cross-cultural understanding. A total number of 398 Chinese learners of Japanese in Chinese universities participated in the survey and 12 of them participated further in post-survey interviews. The results confirm that participants' interest in Japan-related products, employment opportunities, and activities contribute to the motivation to learn the language for cross-cultural understanding and undertake cross-cultural exchanges with Japanese people. The results suggest that increased exposure to Japan-related affairs in the media coverage undermines their desire for intercultural communication and increases the approach for interacting with Japanese people. This means it is necessary for Japanese language educators to engage with Japanese language learners and to address macro contextual processes such as rising tensions between the two countries, negative coverage on China in Japan's media, and negative coverage on Japan in the Chinese media.
WOS研究方向	Education & Educational Research ; Linguistics
语种	英语
出版者	WILEY
WOS记录号	WOS:000458444900009
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://10.2.47.112/handle/2XS4QKH4/327]
专题	上海财经大学
通讯作者	Teo, Timothy
作者单位	1.Murdoch Univ, Sch Educ, 90 South St, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia; 2.Univ Macau, Fac Educ, Ave Univ, Taipa 999078, Macao, Peoples R China; 3.UNSW, Sch Educ, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia; 4.Shanghai Univ Finance & Econ, Fac Foreign Languages, 318 Wuchuan Rd, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Teo, Timothy,Hoi, Cathy Ka Weng,Gao, Xuesong,et al. What Motivates Chinese University Students to Learn Japanese? Understanding Their Motivation in Terms of 'Posture'[J]. MODERN LANGUAGE JOURNAL,2019,103(1):327-342.
APA	Teo, Timothy,Hoi, Cathy Ka Weng,Gao, Xuesong,&Lv, Leining.(2019).What Motivates Chinese University Students to Learn Japanese? Understanding Their Motivation in Terms of 'Posture'.MODERN LANGUAGE JOURNAL,103(1),327-342.
MLA	Teo, Timothy,et al."What Motivates Chinese University Students to Learn Japanese? Understanding Their Motivation in Terms of 'Posture'".MODERN LANGUAGE JOURNAL 103.1(2019):327-342.