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Big five personality traits and motivation to learn Mandarin as foreign language

The study aims to develop a model explicating the role of student personality traits and motivation towards learning Mandarin as a foreign language. Data were collected using 50 undergraduates taking Mandarin language at Universiti Malaysia Sabah. We performed structural equation modelling (SEM) usi...

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Main Authors: Ku, Chen Jung, Nurulasyikin Muda, Mohamad Rizal Abdul Hamid, Hanudin Amin, Suddin Lada, Anath Rau Krishnan
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Published: 2019
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PL1001-1960 Chinese language
Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/30924/1/Big%20Five%20Personality%20Traits%20and%20Motivation%20to%20Learn%20Mandarin%20as%20Foreign%20Language.pdf
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spelling my.ums.eprints.309242021-10-13T08:10:10Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/30924/ Big five personality traits and motivation to learn Mandarin as foreign language Ku, Chen Jung Nurulasyikin Muda Mohamad Rizal Abdul Hamid Hanudin Amin Suddin Lada Anath Rau Krishnan PL1001-1960 Chinese language The study aims to develop a model explicating the role of student personality traits and motivation towards learning Mandarin as a foreign language. Data were collected using 50 undergraduates taking Mandarin language at Universiti Malaysia Sabah. We performed structural equation modelling (SEM) using SmartPLS 3.0 to test the research hypotheses. The path analysis revealed that the big five personality traits significantly influence and explained 52% of the variance in students’ motivation. Further, the analysis indicated that extraversion and conscientiousness produce the strongest correlation with students’ motivation. The results inferred that students who enjoy social visibility and self-discipline are also who will be motivated to learn Mandarin language. Findings also demonstrated that agreeableness positively influences motivation, and neuroticism produces negative direct relations with motivation towards learning Mandarin as a foreign language. On the contrary, the present study did not find any correlation between openness and motivation. The implications of this study are also discussed and interpreted within the context of what educators could do to encourage students’ motivation. 2019 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/30924/1/Big%20Five%20Personality%20Traits%20and%20Motivation%20to%20Learn%20Mandarin%20as%20Foreign%20Language.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/30924/3/Big%20Five%20Personality%20Traits%20and%20Motivation%20to%20Learn%20Mandarin%20as%20Foreign%20Language_ABSTRACT.pdf Ku, Chen Jung and Nurulasyikin Muda and Mohamad Rizal Abdul Hamid and Hanudin Amin and Suddin Lada and Anath Rau Krishnan (2019) Big five personality traits and motivation to learn Mandarin as foreign language. In: 1st Multidisciplinary Academic Research International Conference, 10 December 2019, Putrajaya, Malaysia. http://anyflip.com/bpbl/rtpt
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Ku, Chen Jung
Nurulasyikin Muda
Mohamad Rizal Abdul Hamid
Hanudin Amin
Suddin Lada
Anath Rau Krishnan
Big five personality traits and motivation to learn Mandarin as foreign language
description The study aims to develop a model explicating the role of student personality traits and motivation towards learning Mandarin as a foreign language. Data were collected using 50 undergraduates taking Mandarin language at Universiti Malaysia Sabah. We performed structural equation modelling (SEM) using SmartPLS 3.0 to test the research hypotheses. The path analysis revealed that the big five personality traits significantly influence and explained 52% of the variance in students’ motivation. Further, the analysis indicated that extraversion and conscientiousness produce the strongest correlation with students’ motivation. The results inferred that students who enjoy social visibility and self-discipline are also who will be motivated to learn Mandarin language. Findings also demonstrated that agreeableness positively influences motivation, and neuroticism produces negative direct relations with motivation towards learning Mandarin as a foreign language. On the contrary, the present study did not find any correlation between openness and motivation. The implications of this study are also discussed and interpreted within the context of what educators could do to encourage students’ motivation.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Ku, Chen Jung
Nurulasyikin Muda
Mohamad Rizal Abdul Hamid
Hanudin Amin
Suddin Lada
Anath Rau Krishnan
author_facet Ku, Chen Jung
Nurulasyikin Muda
Mohamad Rizal Abdul Hamid
Hanudin Amin
Suddin Lada
Anath Rau Krishnan
author_sort Ku, Chen Jung
title Big five personality traits and motivation to learn Mandarin as foreign language
title_short Big five personality traits and motivation to learn Mandarin as foreign language
title_full Big five personality traits and motivation to learn Mandarin as foreign language
title_fullStr Big five personality traits and motivation to learn Mandarin as foreign language
title_full_unstemmed Big five personality traits and motivation to learn Mandarin as foreign language
title_sort big five personality traits and motivation to learn mandarin as foreign language
publishDate 2019
url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/30924/1/Big%20Five%20Personality%20Traits%20and%20Motivation%20to%20Learn%20Mandarin%20as%20Foreign%20Language.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/30924/3/Big%20Five%20Personality%20Traits%20and%20Motivation%20to%20Learn%20Mandarin%20as%20Foreign%20Language_ABSTRACT.pdf
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