Why College Students Want to Learn Asian Languages: A Comparative Study of Motivational Factors for the Selection of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vi-etnamese

In recent years, more higher educational institutions started to offer less commonly taught languages, and the enrollments in Asian languages have been increasing. However, little was known about why students are interested in the study of a certain Asian lan-guage. This study investigates students’...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jack Jinghui Liu, Setsue Shibata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages 2008-01-01
Series:Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages
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Online Access:http://www.ncolctl.org/files/Why-College-Students-Want-to-Learn-Asian-Languages.pdf