A Study on College Students' Achievement Attribution in English Learning

DOI

10.2991/msie-16.2016.35How to use a DOI?

Keywords

attribution theory; achievement; vocational college students; English learning.

Abstract

Students' attribution directly influence their degree of effort, which affect their progress in academic achievement. Based on Weiner's attribution theory, it researches on college students' characteristics of attribution by questionnaires. The findings indicate that vocational college students mainly attribute success to internal factors more than external factors. Generally, most students attribute their success and failure to internal factors such as learning strategy, effort and interest, luck. There are some differences of attribution ascribed between high achievers and low achievers, males and females. Therefore, re-attribution training is provided including guidance, goals setting so as to strengthen students' psychological conditions, thus improve academic achievement.

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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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AU  - Bingyan Zhu
AU  - Shixiang Liu
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TI  - A Study on College Students' Achievement Attribution in English Learning
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Management Science and Innovative Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 157
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SN  - 2352-5398
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