The relationship between the motivation ad achievement for Learning English among Vocational high school Students in Chiayi

• Main Authors: Yu-Ying Huang, 黃鈺媖
• Other Authors: Tsu-Fu Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78906375016996373412

碩士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 應用外語系碩士班 === 100 === The purpose of this study is to investigate “the relationship between the motivation and achievement for learning English among vocational high school students in Chiayi”. The main research questions explored in the study are: 1. “Did extrinsic and intrinsic motivation influence scores”? 2. “Did gender influence motivation”? The subjects were 120 Taiwanese students from vocational high school in Chiayi. The instruments used in this study were the self-edited language learning motivation likert scale. The data were analyzed by Descriptive Statistic, Correlation Analysis, One-way analysis anova, Regression Analysis, and Path Analysis. The major findings were as follows: (a).Instrumental motivation, gender and intrinsic motivation have significant correlation to grades for vocational high school students in Chiayi. . (b).The learning achievement of female students in Taiwan has significant difference in intrinsic motivation. Finally, the current study suggests that the teachers should pay more attention to how to motive vocational high school students to study English.