Abstract

English is increasingly being used as a medium instruction in business education at the tertiary level, with its growth fueled by university internationalization. As a result, many students enrolled in English medium business programs are learning through a second or foreign language, with variant levels of prior knowledge and experiences. This raises questions over the impact these factors have on students’ ability to succeed. This paper reports on an investigation of the extent that English language proficiency, mathematical ability, English self-efficacy, mathematical self-efficacy, experience overseas, and gender predict success in studying finance in English at a university in Japan.

摘要

随着大学国际化的推动，英语越来越多地被用作高等教育商业教育的中等教学。因此，许多就读于英语中等商务课程的学生正在通过第二语言或外语进行学习，他们的先验知识和经验水平各不相同。这就提出了这些因素对学生成功能力的影响的问题。本文报告了一项关于英语语言能力、数学能力、英语自我效能感、数学自我效能感、海外经历和性别预测在日本大学学习英语金融学成功的程度的调查。