JALT2025 - Tokyo

How language ideologies impact language learning

Nov 2, 2025, 2:20 PM

30m

National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

Research-oriented Presentation (30-minutes) Psychology and Language Learning Room 305

Speaker

Owen Minns (Chiba University)

Description

This presentation investigates how foreign English teachers learn Japanese in Japan. Combining 3 data sets, two qualitative and one quantitative, this study examines what influences foreign English teachers' Japanese learning and whether Dörnyei's L2 Motivational Self System can account for their motivations. This study found that language ideologies significantly influence how foreign English teachers learn and use Japanese.

Summary

This presentation investigates how foreign English teachers learn Japanese in Japan. Combining 3 data sets, two qualitative and one quantitative, this study examines what influences foreign English teachers' Japanese learning and whether Dörnyei's L2 Motivational Self System can account for their motivations. This study found that language ideologies significantly influence how foreign English teachers learn and use Japanese.