Chinese University Students’ Willingness to Communicate, Motivation to Learn, and Performance in Japanese as a Foreign Language

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10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_55How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Willingness to communicate; Expectancy-value motivation; Performance

Abstract

The present study explored the relationships between Chinese university students’ WTCJ (willingness to communicate in Japanese), motivation to learn, and their performance in Japanese. 103 students majoring in Japanese participated in the survey, and 4 of them accepted the interview. The quantitative and qualitative data analyses led to the following major findings that: (1) in this study, the participants were unwilling to talk in Japanese. Their WTCJ was equal or of slight difference in diverse contexts. The types of audiences, however, produced an effect on WTCJ. (2) The participants were strongly motivated to learn Japanese, with utility being the greatest motivation factor and cost being the least one. (3) The participants’ WTCJ was irrelevant to their performance in this study. Most motivation beliefs were positively correlated with performance and also with WTCJs (subscores of WTCJ). (4) Expectancy can positively predict performance, with attainment being the more powerful one than expectancy, both of which positively predicted performance. This study adds to the body of work on second language acquisition centering on Japanese learners and provides some implications for Japanese teaching.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Aochu Leng
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/02/13
TI  - Chinese University Students’ Willingness to Communicate, Motivation to Learn, and Performance in Japanese as a Foreign Language
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 435
EP  - 447
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_55
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_55
ID  - Leng2023
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