Persistence in Japanese Language Study at Universities in Australia: Why do university students drop out of the language courses? - Softcover

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University students in Astralia were investigated in order to find how their motivation affects their persistence in or termination of their study of Japanese. It is a universal phenomenon that the number of students learning a second language diminishes as they advance to higher levels. Japanese language courses in Australian tertiary institutions are not an exception. An examination of students' motivational traits revealed that there is a typical characteristics that continuing students tend to obtain. The reasons of dropping out of the courses were also examined from the viewpoints of learners' gender and cultural/linguistic backgrounds, and these two factors seem to have some significant effects on the students' continuation/discontinuation of their learning of Japanese.

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