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Direct linkPeng, Anqi; Patterson, Meagan M. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
As the number of international students in the United States increases, many researchers show interest in understanding how international students adapt to the local society and what factors influence this process. Cultural identity and language proficiency, as two important factors for international students in adaptation, cannot be ignored. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Language Proficiency
Ruan, Youjin; Duan, Xiaoju; Du, Xiang Yun – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2015
This study focuses on how beginner learners in a task-based teaching and learning (TBTL) environment perceive what is motivating to them in the process of learning Chinese as a foreign language at Aalborg University, Denmark. Drawing upon empirical data from surveys, group interviews and participant observation, this study explores which kinds of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese, Learning Motivation
Matsumoto, Hiroshi – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2007
This study aimed at exploring motivational factors among American college and university students studying Japanese (as a second/foreign) language by examining their Peak Learning Experiences (Anderson et al., 2001; Bloom, 1982). In all, 128 students studying intermediate Japanese at five different schools returned their answers to this study's…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Japanese, Second Language Learning, College Students
"It Depends on the Students Themselves": Independent Language Learning at an Indonesian State School
Lamb, Martin – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2004
There is continuing interest in the notion of learner autonomy, both as an effective means and valid goal of a language learning curriculum. However, the concept is recognised as emanating from Western tertiary educational contexts and as open to question in different sociocultural settings. This paper reports on a study of language learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Autonomy, Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes
Peer reviewedAbu-Rabia, Salim – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1998
The attitudes of 100 Israeli-Jewish students toward learning Arabic and coexistence with Arabs within Israel were investigated, as was their evaluation of characters they read about in familiar and unfamiliar texts. The students were found to possess low instrumental and low indoors integrative motivation, but their army service motivation and…
Descriptors: Arabic, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools
Peer reviewedHo, Meng-Ching – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1998
Investigated the potentiality that culture studies has to motivate Tawainese junior-high-school pupils to learn English, and tried to establish the relations between pupil interests in culture studies and their orientations, attitudes, and motivation toward learning English. Grade 1 and 2 students (n=480) from Taipei City and Taipei County…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
