EXPLORING GLOBAL LANGUAGE AND BUSINESS SKILLS ACQUISITION IN MULTICULTURAL LEARNING IN COACTION OF MOTIVATION AND LEARNING STYLES

Abstract

In the global scale, acquiring both global language and business core skills have become mandatory in order to develop and prepare international business major students for global leadership and challenges. The ability to acquire these skills in a multicultural learning is a challenge of multifaceted skill learning fueled by reciprocal functions of motivation factors and learning styles of diverse community of learners. This study aimed to explore the challenges of business academic coursework of one hundred business major students in view of influential motivation factors and learning styles exhibited in a classroom that is multicultural in composition. Results show that extrinsic motivation is the most influential underlying factor to acquire global language and a strong perception on communication skill implies the most important dimension in acquiring business competence. Visual and auditory preferences remain to be strengths of their learning strategies. Finally, a discourse of recommendations for educators is provided to fully utilize the collaboration of motivation factors and learning strategies towards continuous improvement and effectiveness of language and business skills acquisition in multicultural learning.