Study on the Learning Motivation of Filipino Chinese Learners from the Perspective of Language Economy

Abstract

       The motivation for learning Chinese as a second language is very complicated, but the economic benefits that learning Chinese can bring to learners is undoubtedly the most important motivation. Learners of different occupations in the Philippines have different views on whether learning Chinese can bring them certain economic benefits. Even if Chinese learners subjectively assure that learning Chinese can bring them certain economic benefits, they still have subjective assumptions about the economic benefits of learning Chinese, because they seldom use Chinese in their work and Chinese proficiency is not a necessary condition for job hunting. At the same time, due to their uncertainty about the cost of time and money to learn Chinese, as well as the strong sense of distance between Chinese and its first language, Chinese learners in the Philippines are not strongly motivated to learn Chinese, and their learning progress is slow and the learning effect is not significant. Therefore, in the process of International Chinese education in the Philippines, attention should be paid to the learning motivation of learners for the purpose of obtaining Chinese economic benefits, quantitative learning objectives, combined with the “Chinese + vocational education” model, to promote the localization development of Philippine international Chinese education.