Big Five Personality Traits and Motivation in Learning Mandarin as Foreign Language

• Main Authors: Ku, Chen Jung, Lau, Yoke Lian, Mohamad Rizal Abdul Hamid, Anath Rau Krishnan, Hanudin Amin, Mohd Nasir Samsulbahri, Mohd Fahmi Ghazali
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Mara 2021
• Subjects: BF501-505 Motivation; PL1001-1960 Chinese language
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33060/1/Big%20Five%20Personality%20Traits%20and%20Motivation%20in%20Learning%20Mandarin%20as%20Foreign%20Language.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33060/2/Big%20Five%20Personality%20Traits%20and%20Motivation%20in%20Learning%20Mandarin%20as%20Foreign%20Language1.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33060/; https://myjms.mohe.gov.my/index.php/AJUE/article/view/16180#:~:text=Findings%20also%20demonstrated%20that%20agreeableness,correlation%20between%20openness%20and%20motivation.; https://doi.org/10.24191/ajue.v17i4.16180

The present study aims to develop a model illuminating the relationship between student personality traits and motivation towards learning Mandarin as a foreign language. A model framework consisting of five exogenous variables and one endogenous variable of motivation are examined in the present st...