THE SELF-MONITORING OF FOREIGN-STUDENTS O F JAPANESE IN PRONUNCIATIONLEARNING

The purpose of this study was to make clear the effects of self-monito ring strategy in foreign students of Japanese on pronunciation learnin g and to examine the relations between the motivations for this learni ng and the strategy of this kind. One hundred twelve foreign students of Japanese, mainly Asians, were asked to respond to 24 items of motiv ations and 42 items of strategy for their pronunciation learning. Ten types of strategy and six types of motivation were found through the f actor analysis of the items. As a result of path analysis, the self-mo nitoring strategy had a positive effect on their pronunciation score a nd the students who had high motivations and constructive perspectives to their future learnings tended to use self-monitoring strategy. Fur ther analysis revealed that three categories of self-monitoring strate gy were found, and among them, self-monitoring based on adequate crite ria by listening to the pronunciations of model was highly related to the pronunciation score.