| Summary: | 碩士 === 東海大學 === 教育研究所 === 95 === The purpose of this study was to investigate English majors’ perceived instrumentality type would make his or her goal orientation and learning behavior patterns different. The participants composed of 575 English majors form college school in middle of Taiwan. The instruments employed in this study consisted of three parts: (1) the Perceived Instrumentality Scale ; (2) Goal Orientation Scale and (3) Learning Behavior Patterns Scale. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, Chi-Square, Hotelling’s T2 Test, One-way ANOVA, and Pearson’s Product-Moment Correlation.
The results of this study were summarized as followings:
1. Genders had no significant differences in four kinds of perceived instrumentalities and learning behavior patterns. But students from different genders had significant differences in mastery approach goal .
2. Students from different grades had no significant differences in four kinds of perceived instrumentalities. But students form different grades differed in performance approach goal and deep-level learning strategy.
3. Students with different perceived instrumentalities differed in goal orientations.
4. Students with different perceived instrumentalities differed in learning behavior patterns.
Key words: perceived instrumentality, goal orientation, learning behavior
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