Study on Motivational Factors in L2 Learning 英语论文

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1、StudyonMotivationalFactorsinL2LearningI.IntroductionMotivationisoneofthemostimportantfactorsinlanguagelearning.Priorresearchershavedonealot.IntheWest,GardnerandLambertaretwoofthemostoutstanding.InChinasomescholarssuchasQiufangWenandYongzhenShialsodidsomeresearchesinthefield.Butmostofthese

2、researchesweredoneinthefieldofsocialpsychologyandcouldn’tgiveacomprehensiveunderstandingoftherolemotivationplays.Ontheotherhand,fewstudieshavebeendoneonthemedicalstudents.Thisstudyistoinvestigatehowthosevariablesaffectingmotivationinteracteachotherinlanguagelearningandthedifferencesbetwee

3、nhighachieversandlowachievers.II.ResearchMethodology2.1InstrumentsInstrumentsusedinthisstudyinvolvedtwoEnglishlanguageproficiencytests:TEMandCET(Band4),andaquestionnaire.AdministeringtheQuestionnaireonEFLLearningformedicalpurposescollectedthequantitativedata.Thequalitativepartwasusedtosup

4、plementtheformer.ReliabilityanalysisofthequestionnaireitemswasperformedwithSPSS,inwhichAlpha=.6758.2.2Subjects236subjectsfrom14intactclassesintwouniversitiesinShijiazhuangandTangshaninMarchandApril,2003.The236subjectsinvolvedinthestudyweresophomoresofnon-Englishmajors.Amongthemthereare100

5、malesand136females,whoseagesrangingfrom17to22withanaverageoflessthan20.ThesesubjectswerechosenfromtwomedicaluniversitiesinHebei,China.AllofthemtookthenationalCollegeEnglishTestBand4(CET)atthebeginningof2003.ThesesubjectshadthesimilarexperienceofEnglishlearninginhighschoolthatmadeitpossibl

6、efortheresearchtomakegeneralizationsfromthedata.DistributionofthesubjectsintermsofageandTEMscoresMeanRangeMedianMinimumMaximumModeAge19.2519.5172220Scores112.897196.5601311102.3DatacollectionandanalysisTowinthecooperationfromthesubjectsandtheirteachersindatacollection,universitiesandclass

7、eswerespeciallychosenwheretheauthorhasacquaintances.Whenthequestionnairewasadministeredtoaclass,theEnglishteacheroftheclasswasinvitedtobepresent.Beforedelivering,theteachertoldtheclassaboutthesurveyanditspurposesandaskedthestudentstorespondtothequestionnaireseriousl