Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the students' motivation for learning Korean as a Foreign language. Based on Gardner and Lambert's theory of integrative motivation and instrumental motivation, this study conducted a survey of 64 students who were taking 「Basic Korean」 GE class at Taiwan Shih Chien University Kaohsiung Campus. As a result of the survey, the respondents' learning motivation was closely related to Hallyu media contents, that is, most of students' interest in Korean pop culture and efforts to enjoy it motivated them to learn Korean and start learning Korean. And the integrated learning motivation showed significant differences in gender and learning experience, and the instrumental motivation showed a significant difference in learning experience, but the grade did not have a statistically significant impact on the two motivations. Although the learning motivation according to the department to which it belongs showed a significant difference, the post-hoc test was not conducted because it was a verification value excluding three departments with a frequency of 1 in the ANOVA test for equal variance.

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