Sociocultural Influences on Young Japanese English Learners: The Impact of Parents’ Beliefs on Learning Motivation
Shoko Tanaka,
Osamu Takeuchi
Abstract:In this quantitative study, we investigated the relationships between parenting and young learners' English learning-specifically parents' sociocultural influence on elementary school children's motivation-within the framework of self-determination theory (SDT). We surveyed 212 dyads of Japanese parents and their children (8-12 years old) and used structural equation modeling to elucidate the causal relationship between parents' attitudes and children's motivation for their second language (L2) learning, which… Show more
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