Generating motivation in minor language education: A case of Hungarian in Japan

Abstract

In this paper I describe the landscape of Hungarian language in Japan and analyse problems that occur. I describe my teaching experience at a Japanese university and suggest an effective manner of teaching a minor language, in terms of both goal setting and methodology. Specifically, I present a potentially effective pedagogy to instruct minor languages, which I have adopted in my bilingual booklets projects. Bilateral activities between language learners and target language speakers are utilized in this project, which ultimately promote language learning motivation.

Keywords

• Hungarian language teaching
• Japanese
• ultra-minor languages
• Hungarian-Japanese bilateral learning
• bilingual project