Language‐Learning Strategies for Learners of Japanese: Investigating Ethnicity

ABSTRACT 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.