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THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES NGUYEN THI THUY HANG A STUDY ON MOTIVATION FOR ENGLISH LEARNING AMONG FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS IN A PRIMARY SCHOOL IN THAI NGUYEN M.A THESIS Field: English Linguistics Code: 8220201 THAI NGUYEN – 2023 THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES NGUYEN THI THUY HANG A STUDY ON MOTIVATION FOR ENGLISH LEARNING AMONG FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS IN A PRIMARY SCHOOL IN THAI NGUYEN M.A THESIS (APPLICATION ORIENTATION) Field: English Linguistics Code: 8220201 Supervisor: Nguyen Thi Thanh Hong, Ph.D THAI NGUYEN – 2023 ĐẠI HỌC THÁI NGUYÊN TRƯỜNG NGOẠI NGỮ NGUYỄN THỊ THÚY HẰNG NGHIÊN CỨU ĐỘNG LỰC THÚC ĐẨY VIỆC HỌC TIẾNG ANH CỦA HỌC SINH LỚP 5 Ở MỘT TRƯỜNG TIỂU HỌC TẠI THÀNH PHỐ THÁI NGUYÊN LUẬN VĂN THẠC SĨ (Định hướng ứng dụng) Ngành: Ngôn ngữ Anh Mã số: 8220201 Cán bộ hướng dẫn: TS Nguyễn Thị Thanh Hồng THÁI NGUYÊN – 2023 DECLARATION I hereby declare that this thesis is my own work and effort and that it has not been submitted to any other university or institution wholly or partially Approved by Thai Nguyen, 2023 SUPERVISOR Author’s signature Nguyen Thi Thanh Hong, PhD Nguyen Thi Thuy Hang i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my deep gratitude to my supervisor, Mrs Nguyen Thi Thanh Hong Ph.D for her support, encouragement and valuable guidance throughout the process of conducting this study My special thank is for Assoc Prof Le Hong Thang and all my other lecturers for their useful and valuable lectures that I got from the MA course at Thai Nguyen University School of Foreign Languages (SFL) I am indebted to them for basic knowledge on teaching methodology and research methodology The fifth-graders and the English teachers at Doi Can 1 Primary School were essential to the completion of this study They gave me their time to work on the study, and I appreciate that Finally, In order to have a solid theoretical foundation for the research, I would want to express my gratitude to all of the writers and linguists who have given me a wealth of information regarding motivation This thesis could not have been finished as planned without all of your assistance Thai Nguyen, 2023 Nguyen Thi Thuy Hang ii ABSTRACT This study was conducted as a descriptive research with the purpose of exploring motivation of the fifth grade students at a primary school in Thai Nguyen city and the relationship between their motivation and their learning achievement in order to help students increase their motivation in learning English in the process of improving their English competence The subjects of the study were 200 primary students at Doi Can primary school To collect the data, a questionnaire to explore students’ motivation was used The results show that the fifth graders at a primary school in Thai Nguyen tended to be intrinsically motivated to study English at high level Additionally, the results of the questionnaire also revealed that intrinsic motivation best describes the participants' motivation to study English, followed by that of the individuals in the extrinsic incentive group In contrast, it appears that integrative and instrumental motivation are less significant for fifth graders in the chosen primary school Furthermore, the researchers discovered that students’ motivation in learning English has positive influences on their English learning achievement However, it is also worth noticing that the correlation between students’ motivation and their learning achievement is weak It is suggested that in the teaching and learning process, students’ motivation is affected by some other factors coming from teachers, parents, course and students themselves such as learning styles, learning strategies, ect At the end of the paper, recommendations for further studies were proposed to facilitate achieving deeper and more convincing results supporting language learning enhancement Hopefully, the findings will be useful for those who are in favor of the topic and for further research Keywords: Motivation, instrumental motivation, intrinsic motivation, integrative motivation, extrinsic motivation, language learning, students iii TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ii ABSTRACT iii TABLE OF CONTENTS .iv LIST OF TABLES vi LIST OF FIGURES vii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS viii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 9 1.1 Rationale 9 1.2 Aims of the study 11 1.3 Scope of the study 11 1.4 Significance of the study 11 1.5 Organization of the study .11 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 13 2.1 Student’s motivation 13 2.1.1 Definition of motivation 13 2.1.2 Types of motivation 15 2.1.3 Role of motivation in Language Learning 19 2.2 English Learning Achievement 22 2.2.1 The Understanding of Learning 22 2.2.2 The Understanding of Achievement .23 2.2.3 The Understanding of English Learning Achievement 24 2.3 Previous studies 24 CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY 30 3.1 Research questions 30 3.2 Research design 30 3.3 Subjects of the study 31 3.4 Data collection instruments 31 3.4.1 Questionnaires 31 iv 3.4.2 Students' English test results 36 3.5 Data collection procedure 36 3.6 Data analysis 37 CHAPTER 4: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 38 4.1 Results from the motivation questionnaire 38 4.1.1 Intrinsic motivation 39 4.1.2 Extrinsic motivation 40 4.1.3 Integrative motivation .41 4.1.4 Instrumental motivation: 43 4.1.5 Discussion 44 4.2 The relationship between fifth-grade students’ motivation and their English learning achievement 45 4.2.1 The Students’ Motivation Score 45 4.2.2 The Students’ English Learning Score 49 4.2.3 The Correlation between Students’ Motivation and their English Learning Achievement .54 4.2.4 Discussion 57 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 59 5.1 Conclusion 59 5.2 Implications 60 5.3 Limitations of the study 61 5.4 Recommendations for further research 61 REFERENCES 63 APPENDIXES I APPENDIX 1: QUESTIONAIRE ON STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN LEARNING ENGLISH (Adapted from Arina Hafadhotul Husna & Rahayu Tri Murtini, 2019) I APPENDIX 2: DATA ENTRY ON EXCEL SOFTWARE, GOOGLE FORM AND DATA PROCESSING PROCEDURE IX v LIST OF TABLES Table 3.1 Intrinsic Motivation Question 32 Table 3.2 Extrinsic Motivation Question 33 Table 3.3 Integrative motivation Question 34 Table 3.5: Value of Catagory in Questionnaire 36 Table 3.6 Levels of English learning motivation 37 Table 4.1: Cases and responses summary of types of motivation Descriptive Statistics 38 Table 4.2: Intrinsic motivation frequencies Descriptive Statistics 39 Table 4.3 Extrinsic motivation frequencies Descriptive Statistics 40 Table 4.4: Integrative motivation frequencies Descriptive Statistics 42 Table 4.5: Instrumental motivation frequencies Descriptive Statistics 43 Table 4.6 The motivation mean score (X) 46 Table 4.7 Students’ learning achievement 49 Table 4.8 The Result of Correlation Calculation 55 vi LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1 The scatterplot of Motivation Score 56 vii