What is it about?
Longitudinally researched on Japanese university students' motivation how it changes through a four-week study abroad program in Australia. Contextual and environmental factors, including peer students, teachers, communication-oriented activities, and must-speak-English environment influence the changes of motivation either positively or negatively depending on how the learners perceive the factors. And the interactions with the peers, teachers and local community enhances the development of real Ideal or Ought to L2 Self images that could help acquire intrinsic motivation.
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Why is it important?
Since the fluctuate nature of motivation is focused in the study of motivation, how it changes and the reason behind the changes are important to explore in order to develop more comprehensive account for the role of motivation in terms of successful second language learning. How three participants' perceptions of their own experiences in a study abroad program affected their attitude towards learning English and motivation to continue their study were investigated by carefully examining data collected by the interviews and learning logs. This is a unique study of the changes of motivation following the relational approach advocated by Dornyei & Ushioda (2011).
Perspectives
The difference between foreign and second language learning environment was proved to have some impact on the Japanese English as L2 learners' changes of motivation and the dvelpment of their L2 self image, depending on how they perceive each experience and the preception is influenced by their cultural background, prior learning experience and the level of self-efficacy. Motivation is regarded as an individual matter and changes in a complex way, thus not easy to be described within its role universally.
Dr Masanori Matsumoto
Bond University
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This page is a summary of: Learners of English as a Second Language in Australia: Their Perceptions of Learning Environment and Factors Affecting Their Motivation, Linguistics and Literature Studies, March 2018, Horizon Research Publishing Co., Ltd.,
DOI: 10.13189/lls.2018.060203.
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