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Publication details [#63552]

Ji, Chongmin, Stacy Duffield, Justin J. Wageman and Anita G. Welch. 2017. Student perceptions of the classroom learning environment and motivation to learn Chinese. Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 52 (2) : 111–126.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Journal DOI
10.1075/csl

Annotation

This study investigated the associations between student perceptions of their classroom psychosocial learning environment and their motivation to learn Mandarin Chinese in the United States. The students took two surveys that measured their perception of the Chinese classroom psychosocial learning environment and their motivation to learn Chinese. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. There were statistically significant associations between student perception and motivation for learning the Chinese language. The three scales of Task Orientation, Involvement, and Equity emerged as having the most influence on students’ motivation to learn Chinese. The Task Orientation scale had the strongest relationship with student motivation.