Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Science, Public Health and Education (SSPHE 2018)

A Study on the Demotivators in English Learning of Chinese non-English Majors

Authors
Jingjing Zeng, Wei Zhang, Wenxia Sun
Corresponding Author
Jingjing Zeng
Available Online January 2019.
DOI
10.2991/ssphe-18.2019.2How to use a DOI?
Keywords
demotivation, demotivators, English learning
Abstract

Demotivation means that the learners, once motivated to learn, lose interest and energy in English learning so that learning English would become a suffering and time-consuming task. The present study has developed a five-Likert scale demotivation questionnaire. 193 sophomores were taken as the subjects. The exploratory factor analysis indicates there are seven factors in the demotivation construct: teaching content, interpersonal relationships, ability beliefs, value placed on the task, class surroundings, teaching facilities, difficulty in learning as well as extra-curriculum activities. One-way ANOVA analysis reveals significant differences in factors like ability beliefs, teaching content, teaching facilities, and value placed on the task between the strong-motivated and the less motivated students, while no significant differences exist in other factors.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Science, Public Health and Education (SSPHE 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
January 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-653-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/ssphe-18.2019.2How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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