Abstract
21st-century competencies, such as communication, collaboration, and global and cross-cultural competence, are advocated as educational goals for higher education in Singapore, and there is a general awareness that instructors aim to enhance the student's growth mindset, self-reflection, and self-efficacy. This paper will examine the learner's self-reflection on an international exchange with Japanese students from Japan in an introductory Japanese language classroom in Singapore and show the concrete processes through which the learners started to display a sense of achievement, self-growth, and self-efficacy after having the exchange. The student's voices will show the positive effects of language learning on self-affirmation and self-efficacy.
