Development of a motivational regulatory strategy scale for Indonesian learners of Japanese
Opportunities for LOTE (Languages Other Than English) speakers to engage with their target language are limited, making it challenging to sustain motivation. The aim of this study is to develop and validate a scale for measuring motivational regulatory strategies among Japanese-language learners and...
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| description | Opportunities for LOTE (Languages Other Than English) speakers to engage with their target language are limited, making it challenging to sustain motivation. The aim of this study is to develop and validate a scale for measuring motivational regulatory strategies among Japanese-language learners and investigate their relationship with motivational factors. This research specifically focuses on Indonesian learners of Japanese who have a non-Kanji (Chinese characters) background and are studying Japanese as a foreign language. The motivational regulatory strategies scale comprises six factors and has demonstrated adequate internal consistency and factor structure. The findings indicate a positive correlation between integrative motivation and these six strategies, suggesting that learners’ integrative motivation may promote the adoption of these strategies. Furthermore, this study emphasizes the significance of the opportunity control strategy, where learners actively seek chances to expose themselves to their target language. Future research is recommended to implement the developed scale in educational settings. Conducting surveys that encompass learners from diverse cultural backgrounds and embarking on longitudinal studies should also be considered. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7aef3f43e60a43e3b24ec5c90f272ffb2023-10-06T13:18:23ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-09-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.12455001245500Development of a motivational regulatory strategy scale for Indonesian learners of JapaneseJunko YamashitaOpportunities for LOTE (Languages Other Than English) speakers to engage with their target language are limited, making it challenging to sustain motivation. The aim of this study is to develop and validate a scale for measuring motivational regulatory strategies among Japanese-language learners and investigate their relationship with motivational factors. This research specifically focuses on Indonesian learners of Japanese who have a non-Kanji (Chinese characters) background and are studying Japanese as a foreign language. The motivational regulatory strategies scale comprises six factors and has demonstrated adequate internal consistency and factor structure. The findings indicate a positive correlation between integrative motivation and these six strategies, suggesting that learners’ integrative motivation may promote the adoption of these strategies. Furthermore, this study emphasizes the significance of the opportunity control strategy, where learners actively seek chances to expose themselves to their target language. Future research is recommended to implement the developed scale in educational settings. Conducting surveys that encompass learners from diverse cultural backgrounds and embarking on longitudinal studies should also be considered.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1245500/fullmotivational regulatory strategies (MRS)Indonesian learners of Japanesescale validationintegrative motivationopportunity control |
| spellingShingle | Junko Yamashita Development of a motivational regulatory strategy scale for Indonesian learners of Japanese Frontiers in Psychology motivational regulatory strategies (MRS) Indonesian learners of Japanese scale validation integrative motivation opportunity control |
| title | Development of a motivational regulatory strategy scale for Indonesian learners of Japanese |
| title_full | Development of a motivational regulatory strategy scale for Indonesian learners of Japanese |
| title_fullStr | Development of a motivational regulatory strategy scale for Indonesian learners of Japanese |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development of a motivational regulatory strategy scale for Indonesian learners of Japanese |
| title_short | Development of a motivational regulatory strategy scale for Indonesian learners of Japanese |
| title_sort | development of a motivational regulatory strategy scale for indonesian learners of japanese |
| topic | motivational regulatory strategies (MRS) Indonesian learners of Japanese scale validation integrative motivation opportunity control |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1245500/full |
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