School of Languages and Cultures

Winter Research Program - 2019 Projects

Available Projects

How to apply

  1. Locating and analysing Aboriginal language data in UQ- and SLQ-held audio tapes.
  2. The investigation of teachers and university students’ perception of environmental discourse in China.
  3. Data analysis on EFL students’ motivation (quantitative and qualitative analysis)
  1. Gender, Humour and Ageing in Modern Japanese Culture
  2. Translating Maïa Alonso’s 2017 Novel, Le Rêve assassiné
  3. How to improve the quality of telephone interpreting services in Australia? Insights from interviews of Mandarin/English telephone interpreters, their authentic telephone interpretation data, and retrospective interviews

3. Data analysis on EFL students’ motivation (quantitative and qualitative analysis)

Project duration: 4 weeks (24 June - 19 July 2019) 20 hours per week

Description: 

• The project aims to examine the English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ motivational factors, demotivational factors and resilience, in relation to their English proficiency (by self-reporting).
• Research questions:
1. What are the subcomponents of EFL learners’ motivation, demotivation, and resilience?
2. What are the structural relationships among foreign language learning motivation, demotivation, resilience, and English proficiency among university-level EFL learners in Korea?
• Approximately 200 students enrolled in English courses at Hannam University in South Korea completed a survey last year. 
• The survey consisted of approximately 120 items on 5 Likert-scale with 12 short-answer questions (answered in Korean).

Expected outcomes and deliverables:

• Compiling the survey responses into Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) 
• Running descriptive data analysis, correlations, and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) 
• Summarising the findings with proper interpretations of statistical analysis 
• Compiling the short-answer responses (in Korean) and finding the main topics/themes for qualitative analysis

Number of participants: 1

Further info: 

Contact Dr Min Jung Lee m.jee@uq.edu.au for more information.