挑战与对策保持及促进汉语学习者的兴趣、动机及信心.PDF

挑战与对策:保持及促进汉语学习者的兴趣、动机及信心  67 Challenge and Strategies: Sustaining and Enhancing CFL Learners’ Interest, Motivation and Confidence 挑战与对策: 保持及促进汉语学习者的兴趣、动机及信心 李秀萍Xiuping LI a · 弗朗西斯 卡恩Francis Kane 阿尔斯特大学Ulster University Abstract This paper reports how the CFL learners at Ulster University (UU), in Northern Ireland, who at the end of Year One before moving on to Year 2, had experienced demotivation and a sense that their CFL was becoming ever more challenging and ‘more and more complicated and difficult ’ to deal with, have been encouraged to sustain or regain or enhance confidence. It was due to the unique situation that the students in the BA honours in Applied Languages and Translation at the beginning of Year 2, are normally allowed to drop one of the three modern languages which they are required to take in their first year, and choose any two languages. It was fear that failure at Chinese would affect the overall result of their degree, some CFL learners choose to give up and take other language, which means their CFL learning stops at only one year beginner level. Therefore, how to sustain and enhance the CFL learners’ interest, motivation and confidence became a big challenge. To that end, a series of learning strategies have been developed, which are all put under the category of ‘Holistic Learning strategies’ in this paper, to promote learners’ understanding that learning a language which is very dif- ferent from their mother tongue can add further dimensions to their thought patterns, and give herself or himself an edge in employment. Of all the strategies applied, benefitting from the unique nature of rich