“Please stop calling me a Koreaboo”: stereotyping learners of Korean as a foreign language and its impact on language learning anxieties

• Main Author: Lau, Josephine Faith Hiu Yung
• Other Authors: Ng Bee Chin
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics; Humanities::Language::Korean
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165176
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Foreign Language learning anxieties (FLLA) tend to impede a learner’s acquisition of the target language and reduce their willingness to communicate (WTC). With the ubiquity of Korean pop culture now influencing more people to learn Korean as a foreign language (KFL), stereotypes surrounding KFL lea...