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Profiling Chinese university students' motivation to learn multiple languages.
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Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development . Sep2019, Vol. 40 Issue 7, p590-604. 15p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This study extends our understanding of Chinese university students' motivation to learn languages other than English (LOTEs) by adding a contextual dimension to the L2 Motivational Self System. The study drew on Higgins' ([1987]. "Self-discrepancy: A Theory Relating Self and Affect." Psychological Review 94: 319–340.) original Own-Other standpoints and Lanvers' ([2016]. "Lots of Selves, Some Rebellious: Developing the Self Discrepancy Model for Language Learners." System 60: 79–92.; [2017]. "Contradictory Others and the Habitus of Languages: Surveying the L2 Motivation Landscape in the United Kingdom." The Modern Language Journal 101 (3): 517–532.) Self-Discrepancy Theory for Language Learners to enrich the framework, and recruited two different learner groups with Chinese as their first language and English as their second language – voluntary learners of Spanish as a third language and non-voluntary learners of Spanish. The Q-methodology was applied to profile these two groups' multilingual selves, with four motivational profiles emerging from the analysis: self-motivated with multilingual posture, self-motivated with instrumentality, other-motivated with promotion-focused instrumentality, and other-motivated with prevention-focused instrumentality. The findings revealed that multilingual posture was prominent in the self-motivated learners' investment in learning Spanish, and the other-motivated learners were subjugated to the macro-level sociological influences of global English and the national foreign language policy. Our findings also suggested a potential gate-keeping role of global English in conceptualising non-Anglophone learners' LOTE learning motivation. This paper concludes with some methodological and theoretical implications for future LOTE learning motivation research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *COLLEGE students
*LANGUAGE & languages
*LOTE language
*LEARNING
*SPANISH language
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01434632
- Volume :
- 40
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 137658007
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2019.1571074