Language-learning strategies for learners of Japanese: Investigating ethnicity

Despite the proliferation of research articles in recent years dealing with language-learning strategies, ethnicity is one variable that has not received a great deal of attention in the literature. Japanese is a language that has not been targeted much in any investigation of language-learning strategies. This paper seeks to remedy these deficiencies by presenting the results of an exploratory study seeking to identify the language-learning strategies of learners of Japanese as a foreign language at a tertiary institution. It also seeks to identify the most- and least-favored strategies of a variety of ethnic groups and to investigate the relationship between ethnicity and language-learning strategy preferences