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Japanese language learning and economic motivation - Through investigation of Fukuoka foreign students Jeong, Tae-Joon The economic concept of language acquisition is human capital. Language acquisition requires new values and it is effective to give external motivation. The most effective motivation for foreign language learning is economic reward. It is aimed to acquire the second language as a human capital and enhance social utility. We investigated the purpose and motivation of foreign students to acquire the dominant language of Japanese. First, what is the purpose of studying Japanese as a second foreign language in the case of foreign students staying in Japan? Second, is learning Japanese motivated as a competitive human capital element in the future? Third, if so, what is the learning strategy and content for achieving the goal? Based on the relationship between language proficiency and economic benefits in the labor market, research shows that strong incentives for language acquisition are closely related to economic factors. For example, in relation to the relationship between Japanese acquisition ability and job influence by nationality, Chinese and Vietnamese students answered that they had more influence on salary and human relations than students from other countries. In addition, when asked about the relationship between the period of stay and purpose of studying in Japan, the longer the stay, the higher the economic reason and the higher the university entrance. In this way, foreign students in Japan were made sure that the acquisition of the economic dominant language of Japanese was motivated to acquire what they intended. They consciously aimed at university entrance and human relations formation, and were acquiring Japanese as a human resource to have jobs with high social treatment. In conclusion, the motivation and purpose of learning Japanese are as follows. It is analyzed that it aims to achieve the goal by investing effort and learning by economic motivation. In other words, as you can see from the survey results, acquiring Japanese as a second foreign language and inducing economic incentive were persuasive arguments even for Japanese foreign students from Southeast Asia.