Chinese language overtaking the Japanese language on the UIUC campus

For our group project, we were interested in finding out if and why the Chinese language is overtaking the Japanese language here on the UIUC campus. Our group consisted of four researchers broken up into two language groups: Chinese and Japanese. Between our group, we conducted a total of eight interviews which helped us to find the answer to this question. Our first questions we used were quite broad so we decided to narrow our questions based on the answers we received on the first interview with the non-heritage advanced learners. After we narrowed our questions, our road to success and understanding of this language phenomenon helped us drastically in our final presentation at the EIU conference and final paper.unpublishe