Motivational Aspect of Student’s Language Learning Style in Differentiated Instruction of English for Specific Purposes

Abstract

This study aims to research the opportunity of applying the motivational aspect of the language learning style in differentiated instruction of English for specific purposes (ESP) to information technology students (IT) through defining their intrinsic and extrinsic motivation; to determine the students' levels of motivation; to compare motivation of the third-and fourth-year students, their desire to master the IT profession and study ESP; to define the factors which balance students' motivation. A mixed research design was employed. The participants were 234 thirdyear students and 231 fourth-year students, mostly males, aged from 20 to 22 years who studied at technical university during 2017-2019 academic years and volunteered to take part in the study. To collect the data, the questionnaires by Rean and Iakunіn "Studying the motives of students' learning", Ilina "Learning motivation at the university" and Dubovitskaya "Methodology for diagnosing the learning motivation orientation" were used. Although we revealed that students' intrinsic motivation to study ESP and master the IT profession was stronger than extrinsic motivation, we also found that the dominance of intrinsic or extrinsic motives in students may depend on the situation and particular ESP activity. The support of students' high level of motivation and development of students' medium and low levels of motivation should rely on the factors which help to balance students' motivation.

The Impact of Feedback on Students’ Autonomous ESP Learning Outcomes

“…The different problems of studying discipline "English for Specific Purposes (ESP)" for university students are cleared up in educational and methodological studies of R. Bielousova, I. Budas, N. Dmitrenko, S. Nikolaeva, I. Dolia, N. Moroz, O. Hrydzhuk, T. Dyak, I. Denys, A. Petrova, O. Podzygun, O. Synekop, etc. The following aspects are highlighted there: impact of ESP assessment on students' motivation; soft skills development in ESP learning; problem-based tasks in ESP learning; ESP task-based course book development; interdisciplinary bonds in the process of learning Ukrainian and ESP; motivational aspect of student's language learning style in differentiated instruction of ESP; adapting materials for the ESP online course (Dmitrenko, & Budas, 2018;Bielousova, 2020;Dmitrenko, Petrova, & Podzygun, 2020;Dmitrenko, Dolia, & Nikolaaeva, 2020;Hrydzhuk et al, 2020;Moroz, 2020;Nikolaeva, & Synekop, 2020).…”

Development of the National Security Masters’ communicative language ability

“…We have conducted analysis of scientists who investigated the ESP, so Nation & Macalister (2010) studied English for Specific Purposes content based on language curriculum design; language learning principles were determined by Tomlinson (1998Tomlinson ( , 2007; conceptualizing content and organization of content and activities were the issue of Graves (1996). English for Specific Purposes covers language course design, namely environment, objectives, aims, content, format, materials, assessment and evaluation (Nation & Macalister, 2010).…”

“…We have conducted analysis of scientists who investigated the ESP, so Nation & Macalister (2010) studied English for Specific Purposes content based on language curriculum design; language learning principles were determined by Tomlinson (1998Tomlinson ( , 2007; conceptualizing content and organization of content and activities were the issue of Graves (1996). English for Specific Purposes covers language course design, namely environment, objectives, aims, content, format, materials, assessment and evaluation (Nation & Macalister, 2010). According to Uso- Juan & Martinez (2006) who investigate current trends in the development and teaching of the four language skills, there are receptive and productive skills and the purpose is actually to integrate them not to use it separately; and the knowledge concerning spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary, word formation, the grammatical structure in the area of linguistic competence.…”

“…In spite of the profound theoretical study of the analyzed problem in the scientific literature (Dmitrenko et al, 2020;Nikolaeva & Synekop, 2020;Bielousová, 2020), there is still not enough practical research demonstrating the proces of communicative language ability development for specific purposes. So it is important to analyse the educational program of the National Security Masters, its methods and ways of organizing the learning process in order to be used in other educational establishments both in Ukraine and abroad.…”

Qualimetric Assessment of the Level of Formation of Learner Autonomy of Future Foreign Language Teachers

“…In connection with learner autonomy, it is vital to take into account the issues of responsibility Pohorielova, 2020;Ponomarov & Chebotarov, 2012), study motivation (Maslova, 2019;Nikolaeva & Synekop, 2020;, planning and goal setting (Chekhratova & Pohorielova, 2019;; Little, n.d.;), reflection (Deci et al, 1981;.…”