Research on language learning and teaching: 1997-98

Johnstone, Richard

doi:10.1017/s0261444800013987

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“…He Zhaoxiong and Mei Deming (1999) define motivation as the learner's overall goal or orientation. Johnstone (1999) considers that motivation is a drive directed towards a goal. Pintrich and Schunk (2002:4) think of motivation as "the process whereby goal directed activity is instigated and sustained", in which motivation is to start and keep the activity towards the goal.…”

Section: Studies On Learning Motivation Abroad and Homementioning

confidence: 99%

The Study of Student Motivation on English Learning in Junior Middle School -- A Case Study of No.5 Middle School in Gejiu

Long¹,

Zhu²,

Chen³

2013

ELT

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Motivation plays an important role in foreign language learning. Learning motivation is to promote and guide and maintain learning activities which have been conducted an internal strength or internal mechanism. Learning motivation once formed, the student will use an active learning attitude to learn, and express a keen interest in learning, and can focus attention in class to master knowledge. Through the study of the theory of modern education, this paper discusses the definition of motivation, types of motivation; the role of motivation in English learning are analyzed. The subjects in the thesis are Gejiu middle school students, and the author designed a questionnaire on English motivation. The purpose of the study was to find out the unfavorable factors. According to the results and the related theory, the author presents some suggestions to arouse the students' English motivation and improve the efficiency of English learning and teaching in Junior Middle School. Among the suggestions, the implications by the study include that students need motivation to help them learning English, they should establish the right goal to enhance them learning English well. Meanwhile, as an organizer in teaching, teacher should pay more attention to communicative learning that can stimulate students to learn effectively.

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Section: Studies On Learning Motivation Abroad and Homementioning

confidence: 99%

The Study of Student Motivation on English Learning in Junior Middle School -- A Case Study of No.5 Middle School in Gejiu

Long¹,

Zhu²,

Chen³

2013

ELT

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“…It seems that the male Students' Academic Progress Motivation Scale is higher than female students. 3. It seems that the freshmen are more motivated in comparison of sophomore or sophomore classes.…”

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“…(Paul Eggen & Kauchak Don, 2005) Moreover, there are many different definitions for the word 'motivation' by scholars from different majors of learning purpose. Johnstone (1999) believes that motivation is a drive direct towards a goal. Williams and Burden (1997) define motivation as a state of cognitive and emotional arousal, which leads to a conscious decision to act, and which gives you to a period of sustained intellectual and or physical effort in order to attain a previously set goal.…”

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Comparative Research towards Students’ Academic Progress Motivation Scale on Social and Natural Science for Learning General English at Ghor University, Afghanistan

Hashemi¹,

Farhang²

2023

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Background: Motivation scale is an essential characteristic that simplifies the success and dissatisfaction for learning English. In learning English language, motivation is the key factor to improve and preserve the learning procedure for academic progress. Objectives: Students who are motivated concerning learning attitude to learn English and express a desire to learn and get knowledge through this skill. Method: In this research, the data has been collected over spreading questionnaire by selecting randomly students of both social and natural science, and analyzed by SPSS version 26. Result: The students’ academic progress motivation scale on learning English as General Subject was high on academic progress, doing their home assignments without asking any helps from others, and all the students are actively involved in learning process. The result of this research has shown the high levels of motivated students learning English. Suggestion: This research was the exceptional among similar researches, and it had discovered many beneficial methods finding the students’ motivation scales on their academic progress and English lecturers easily use the effective methods to teach the students and get more positive results. As it has found that there were disappointments and frustrations from current situations which needs more and especial researches to be done in future, and the scale of academic progress motivation for learning English was different between both social and natural science, so it is suggested that some research must be done on students of natural science only.

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“…According to Jhonstone (1999) he claimed that motivation as stimulant for gaining a certain goal. Crump (1995) explained that pleasure, interest, passion, and spirit The core aspect of motivation is to understand.…”

Section: Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Portraying EFL Students Individual Different in Learning English

Sugianto

Defitranita

Apriani

et al. 2021

Int Jour edu Research and Dev

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The objectives of this research are to find out the low and high achiever students’ individual differences in learning English . in this study, the researcher used qualitative methods study.The population and the subject of this research were consisted of three low achiever student and three high achiever student at TBI which are the total number six students. In this study, the researcher took purposive sampling and the instrument used is interview. The individual differences consisted of age, sex, aptitude, motivation, learning styles, learning strategies, personality. The data showed that the low achiever student motivation is to obtain sarjana degree, use more cognitive strategies, preffer to study with friend, choose the extrovert way in learning, use to fight with the inhibition, and having the anxiety in learning English. while the high achiever wanted to be the native like, using less cognitive strategies, preffer to study alone, use the introvert way in acquiring language, and let the inhibition win. There some similarities between both student such as they couldnt comprehend the material in relatively shortime, they plan monitor and evaluate their English, like to watch english stuff and listen to song to improved their English, they both prefer learning with the phsycally activities involved, like solving problem while learning English, their confidence built by their experienced in learning English and the last their prefer the democratic classs than the traditional one because the same reason.

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Research on language learning and teaching: 1997-98

Cited by 6 publications

References 99 publications

The Study of Student Motivation on English Learning in Junior Middle School -- A Case Study of No.5 Middle School in Gejiu

The Study of Student Motivation on English Learning in Junior Middle School -- A Case Study of No.5 Middle School in Gejiu

Comparative Research towards Students’ Academic Progress Motivation Scale on Social and Natural Science for Learning General English at Ghor University, Afghanistan

Portraying EFL Students Individual Different in Learning English

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