Publications

Publication details [#51429]

Gan, Zhengdong. 2009. 'Asian learners' re-examined: an empirical study of language learning attitudes, strategies and motivation among mainland Chinese and Hong Kong students. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 30 (1) : 41–58.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

culture | institutional context | language attitude | second language acquisition | social context

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

The results of this comparative research suggest that institutional and social contexts rather than cultural traditions define mainland China and Hong Kong university students' attitudes towards, strategies in and motivation for English as a second language learning.