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Most academic professionals encounter students who are highly motivated but despite years of study are not highly proficient at language usage. This poses the question of gHow can this be?h This leads us to understand that there must be more factors in the language learning process than simple motivation. It is possible that, motivation does not affect language directly, but indirectly. If this is true then we must ask ourselves, gWhat else is important in language learning process?h
My research interest attempts to address this question. This interest originally comes from my teaching experience in a rural district in a Japanese high school where I observed many highly motivated students that did not always get good marks on English proficiency tests. It appeared to me that some of my students had had irrelevant and misdirected beliefs about learning. For instance, some students believed that taking notes beautifully with colored pens was important and they concentrated on doing this in class. One day, one girl came up to me and asked me if she was a good student or not, showing me her beautifully decorated notebook. Others believed, that foreign language learning is a girlsf subject. Boy students sometimes became poor students, although they had expressed favorable attitudes and motivations toward language learning in self-report questionnaires at the beginning of the course.
From my teaching experience in a senior high school emerged many questions concerning how learner motivation defines how well the learner maintains their willingness to study the target language, and how do learner beliefs affect how they study language, as well as, does the reciprocal interaction of the two affect their proficiency? I would like to clarify the relationship between motivation, beliefs, learning strategies, and achievement. I would like to eventually use this information to develop possible educational interventions, on behalf of language learners, would provide insight for classroom instruction, tutorials, and counseling.

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