Empirical Study on Characteristics of Students' English Learning Motivation in Local Universities

DOI

10.2991/ichssr-16.2016.101How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English learning motivation, Local university, College students, Empirical study, Personal development.

Abstract

Based on the questionnaire of college students' English learning motivation developed by Gao Yihong(2000), with 304 college students from some local universities as subjects, the paper aims to discuss the intensity of college students' English learning motivation as well as the most common motivation content, and compare different types of college students' English learning motivation. The results show that the intensities of college students' English learning motivation in local university 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. Undergraduates' intrinsic motivation is significantly lower than that of junior college students. And college 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. The differences of English learning motivation in gender, grade, only child, student status, autoditacte, majors have not been found in this research.

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© 2016, 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  - Shuyan Xu
AU  - Xianhua Yang
PY  - 2016/07
DA  - 2016/07
TI  - Empirical Study on Characteristics of Students' English Learning Motivation in Local Universities
BT  - Proceedings of 2016 2nd International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 485
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/ichssr-16.2016.101
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