A Survey and Quantitative Analysis of Chinese Students’ English Learning Motivation

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10.2991/emcs-15.2015.35How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English learning motivation; Chinese students; Empirical study

Abstract

Based on the questionnaire of college students’ English learning motivation developed by Gao Yihong, the paper aims to discuss the intensity of students’ English learning motivation as well as the most common motivation content, and compare different types of students’ English learning motivation. The results show that the intensity of students’ English learning motivation are above average, which are in the following descending order: personal development, social responsibility, information media, inherent interest, achievement, going abroad and learning situation. The most common five main motivation contents are related to personal development. Students who have done part-time jobs have distinctive higher inherent interest motivation, going abroad motivation, social responsibility motivation, information media motivation than those of students who have no working experiences, however, the differences of English learning motivation in gender, grade, only child, student status, autoditacte, majors have not been found.

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© 2015, 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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AU  - Shuyan Xu
AU  - Xianhua Yang
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TI  - A Survey and Quantitative Analysis of Chinese Students’ English Learning Motivation
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Management, Commerce and Society
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 166
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SN  - 2352-5398
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