Imagining a future of English: A pilot investigation of learners' goals and efforts

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As one result of structural changes that have taken place in Japan following the collapse of the asset price bubble in 1991, Genda (2006) argued most young Japanese have lost faith in the future, and lack direction in orienting to and achievement of future goals. This paper reports on a study of English majors (N=53) from a private university in the Kanto region who each wrote a 150-word essay in English, their L2, in which they described their imagined future L2 selves, and their daily efforts for successful goal attainment. Analysis of participant data showed that many learners lack direction in goal orientation and requirements for goal attainment; however, others have defined goals, and put methods into action to achieve their goals. Furthermore, participants who lack career goal specificity described significantly more ideal study methods; and participants who desire to work or live in an English environment described significantly more factual study efforts. One implication from our study is that a goal orientation and self-regulation framework ought to be created to enable learners to develop skills to clearly describe their future goal orientations and that enable learners to be trained in self-regulatory study habits to help them achieve their goals.

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