The Role of Motivation in Learning Chinese as a Second Language: A Case study of Zimbabwean Students Learning Chinese as a Second Language

Faith Mkize; Godfrey Chisoni

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The Role of Motivation in Learning Chinese as a Second Language: A Case study of Zimbabwean Students Learning Chinese as a Second Language

Faith Mkize, Godfrey Chisoni

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 3, Issue 4)

Received: 13 June 2015 Accepted: 1 July 2015 Published: 9 July 2015

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Motivation in second language learning is an important factor that should be never ignored, it requires much attention for second language learning and teaching to be successful, the students should be motivated and the teacher needs to employ teaching methods that motivate the students in acquiring their target language. This research was conducted at the University of Zimbabwe Confucius Institute which is the main center for teaching and learning of Chinese language and culture in Zimbabwe and concluded that students who are motivated are easy to teach and can perform better without much assistance from the instructor. The paper discusses the role played by motivation in the acquiring of second language, which is Chinese language, and the impact it has in improving the target language by students. Usually the teaching methods and criteria used by the teachers to reward or motivate the students are the ones which determine the students’ performance in the second language learning. Without motivation students easily quit or lose interest in the target language. However, although motivation plays a pivotal and unreplaceable role in the second language learning and teaching, it is easily forgotten and not given much attention. This paper will also focus on showing the impact motivation has in the second language learning and teaching, and how the University of Zimbabwe students are being motivated to acquire Chinese as a second language. Most teachers know and are aware of the importance of motivation in second language learning, but easily neglected in the actual teaching and learning process. Motivation provides the primary impetus to initiate learning the L2 and the driving force to sustain the long and often tedious learning process. The University of Zimbabwe students who are learning Chinese are motivated well but there is still need for review of the teaching methods and the frameworks being used, since the majority of the students complained about the methods used in class.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 3, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.20150304.19
Page(s)	252-257
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Motivation, Second Language Learning, Chinese as a Second Language, Confucius Institute

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Faith Mkize

Department of Modern Languages
Godfrey Chisoni

Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Jilin University, Changchun, China

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