Takahiro Shinya
About
TAKAHIRO SHINYA is an educator and a researcher specializing in ESL/EFL education. His research focuses on L2 motivation and intercultural understanding. Takahiro taught ESL in Thailand for 7 years after teaching English at a junior high school in Japan for 3.5 years. Prior to those experiences, he taught Japanese to adults in Nepal for 3 months. Takahiro completed his master’s degree in Finland in 2021 where he chose to look at Finnish education and their attitudes and behaviors toward learning and speaking English.Sessions
Short Presentation Motivating Factors in Japanese University EFL Students: A Mixed Method Approach more
Sat, Dec 18, 17:00-17:25 Asia/Tokyo
This presentation reports on an investigation of ESL/EFL learning motivation focusing on two factors: instrumental motivation and integrative motivation. The research design followed a mixed-method, two-phase exploratory approach to collect data from students at 4-year universities (private and public) in Hiroshima, Japan. For the quantitative data, this study utilized a 14-item questionnaire that was adapted from Gardner (see Zanghar, 2012). For the qualitative analysis, semi-structured interviews were conducted, which asked 17 open questions (designed by the author) to elicit more details on their ESL/EFL experiences. The presenter will explain the results and discuss the Japanese attitudes towards ESL/EFL learning and motivation.