Existential Analysis in Surmounting Foreign Language Learner‘s Difficulties

Abstract

This pedagogical study is focusing on the analysis of an existential background to surmount the difficulties frequently experienced by foreign language learners in higher education. The existential Kierkegaardian and Sartrean point of view is used as a starting point to explore the learner’s understanding of their existence. This self-understanding is assumed to be the background of learner’s difficulties in their effort to master the foreign language which mirrored in learner’s outcome. The method applied in this study is qualitative utilizing observation and interview as data collective. The result obtained from this research shows problems in decision-making in determining French as the focus of learning, causing the inability of the research participants to soundly exist as responsible foreign language learners.