The Motivational Dynamics of Learning a Foreign Language of Limited Ethnolinguistic Vitality during a Study Abroad

Autor/in	Wang, Lefan
Titel	The Motivational Dynamics of Learning a Foreign Language of Limited Ethnolinguistic Vitality during a Study Abroad
Quelle	In: International Journal of Multilingualism, 20 (2023) 3, S.932-949 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wang, Lefan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1479-0718
DOI	10.1080/14790718.2021.1960357
Schlagwörter	Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Study Abroad; Undergraduate Students; Slavic Languages; Foreign Countries; Asians; Foreign Students; Comparative Analysis; Self Concept; Multilingualism; Student Motivation; Student Attitudes; Personal Autonomy; Cultural Awareness; Bulgaria; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Slawische Sprache; Ausland; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Selbstkonzept; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Schulische Motivation; Schülerverhalten; Individuelle Autonomie; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Bulgarien
Abstract	This study investigated the L2 motivation of five Chinese undergraduates learning Bulgarian as their major and studying in Bulgaria in a one-academic-year exchange programme. The focus of the study concerned a rarely explored L2 learning situation, namely when the L2 is associated with a host community of limited ethnolinguistic vitality. Based on the theoretical foundations of the L2 Motivational Self System and the ideal multilingual self, and drawing on the principles of retrodictive qualitative modelling, this study identified three distinct motivational patterns emerging during the one-year study abroad in Bulgaria: decreasing motivation with a weakened ideal Bulgarian self; fluctuating motivation with a weakened ideal Bulgarian self; and fluctuating motivation with a strengthened ideal Bulgarian self. A comparative analysis of these patterns suggested that: (1) language learners' agentic interpretations of their sojourn in the host country had a considerable impact on their cultural interest, thereby shaping the quality of their ideal Bulgarian self; (2) the impairment/enhancement of the ideal Bulgarian self was a principal cause of the decrease/increase of the participants' Bulgarian-learning motivation; and (3) an ideal multilingual self can work as compensation for the impaired ideal Bulgarian self, by directly motivating student's learning when the ideal Bulgarian self was weakened. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01