Foreign Language Learning Burnout Among Chinese and German Undergraduate Students

Using the Foreign Language Learning Burnout Scale (FLLBS), this study conducted a comparative research in the German department at Zhejiang University and the Sinology department at Wuerzburg University to explore the quantitative and qualitative differences between Chinese and German undergraduates. As the results indicated, students from the German department at Zhejiang University showed a higher level of foreign language learning burnout than students from the Sinology department at Wuerzburg University, Germany. Factor analyses were further performed, suggesting distinctive underlying burnout models that may contribute to the difference between students from the two cultures.