Study on Improving the Learning Motivation of Business English Majored Students Based on Case Teaching Method

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10.2991/assehr.k.201127.038How to use a DOI?

Keywords

business English teaching, case teaching method, learning motivation

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to know about the status quo of learning motivation of business English majored students at the undergraduate level, investigate the differences of such students’ learning motivations under case teaching method and traditional telling method, and find the correlation between the learning motivation of the students and the teaching method. By understanding the intrinsic dimensions of the learning motivation of such students, this paper constructs an index related to “learning motivation of business English majored students based on case teaching method” and finds out a research mode for improving the learning motivation. In order to achieve the research purpose, literatures on learning motivation and English teaching methods are sorted out and analyzed. A theoretical basis of this research is constructed based on the analysis and a “Business English Majored Students’ Learning Motivation Scale” is prepared. The applicability of the Scale is investigated, analyzed and verified by semi-structure interview. Finally, the Scale is determined as the research tool of this study. Taking business English majored students in the City College of Dongguan University of Technology as the research object, this research made a questionnaire survey on student undergone experimental teaching and carried out descriptive analysis and difference analysis on the acquired data. In the end, the study got the following findings and conclusions: first, there are significant differences in the impacts of different teaching methods on the learning motivation of business English majored students; second, such students generally have good learning motivation; third, the case teaching method is highly feasible in business English related courses. Finally, based on the research results, suggestions are made for school administrators, full-time teachers, and business-English majored students: administrators should enhance the training on full-time teachers and provide a good teaching environment and conditions; teachers should enrich their teaching methods and actively guide students to continuously improve their learning motivation; students should improve their learning effectiveness as much as possible by maintaining a high level of learning motivation and familiarizing themselves with relevant teaching methods during professional courses.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ziqi Zhu
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/28
TI  - Study on Improving the Learning Motivation of Business English Majored Students Based on Case Teaching Method
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 191
EP  - 198
SN  - 2352-5398
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