Beginners Foreign Students' Learning Motivation Research

In the researches on second language acquisition, motivation is one of the most important affective factors. Because of its variability,motivation has attracted the attention of scholars since the 1950s. But in the field of Chinese as a second language teaching, related studies are few.On the basis of the relevant research of second language teaching both at home and abroad, this study investigates the motivational factors and the instructor immediacy of the first learners of Chinese by question-naire. Participants are 81 students enrolled in the International Cul--tural Exchange School at Fudan University. T test, one-way anova and correlation are used to address the research questions.The results of the study indicate that girls' motivation strength is stronger than boys', and the older group's is stronger than the younger ones'. Compared with instrument motivation orientation, integrative moti--vation orientation is more important. Integrative motivation orientation correlates significantly with the variation tendency of motivation as well as motivation strength. Among the factors that led to the change of motivation, instrumental motivational subsystem and teacher-specific motivational components are most influential. Instructor immediacy is correlated with the variation tendency of motivation. Based upon the findings, recommendations are made for teachers to enhance students' motivation.