Volume 29, Issue 2
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.395
PSYCHOLOGICAL BARRIERS OF RUSSIAN LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Abstract
The psychological barriers severely hinder the learning and application of the Russian language. Therefore, this paper attempts to evaluate the current situation and identify the influencing factors of the psychological barriers of Russian language learners. The author carried out a questionnaire survey on Russian majors from five universities in Beijing, China. Based on the survey data, the existing psychological barriers of these subjects were summed up, and their influencing factors were studied by an ordered Logit model. The results show that the college students had a high degree of recognition for their Russian language learning; most of them maintained a good attitude towards the questions raised by teachers; a large portion of them copied from others in doing homework assigned by their teachers; their attitude toward Russian language learning should be further improved; a certain percentage of them were pessimistic about the future of Russian; their psychological barriers mainly depend on the degree of preference for Russian, difficulty in learning the language, family support, job opportunities, and future prospects. The research results shed light on how to promote the learning interest and mental health of Russian majors.
Keywords
Russian Language Learning, Psychological Barriers, Influencing Factors, Logit Model.