Publications

Publication details [#53335]

Yu, Baohua. 2010. Learning Chinese abroad: the role of language attitudes and motivation in the adaptation of international students in China. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 31 (3) : 301–321.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic world | foreign language acquisition | language anxiety | language attitude | motivation

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study reveals that integrative motivation has a very significant positive impact whilst language anxiety has a very significant negative impact on both sociocultural and academic adaptation of international students in China. Moreover, in this study, academic adaptation appears to be tightley and positively linked to sociocultural adaptation.