THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES NGUYEN THI HOA AN INVESTIGATION INTO FACTORS AFFECTING STUDENTS'''' MOTIVATION IN LEARNING ENGLISH AT QUYNH THO HIGH SCHOOL
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According to Wikipedia, as of the 2000s around two billion people speak English in the English-speaking world, making it the language with the most native speakers and the third-largest speaker population Being fluent in English makes it easy for individuals to connect with each other, enjoy movies, music, culture, and anything else The English language is essential to daily lives because it facilitates communication among nations In addition, it is a universal language used in a wide range of contexts, including trade, diplomacy, education, the economy, society, and international commerce in general (Dung et al., 2021) In Vietnam, the demand for people who could communicate effectively in English has also witnessed a dramatic increase International organizations have cautioned that poor foreign language abilities may make it difficult for Vietnamese workers to fully integrate into the global labor market (Chung, 2022) The educational sector is also quickly responding to the need
In response to the need, the new English teaching program was established in Vietnam for general education, and all third graders, seventy percent of sixth graders, and sixty percent of tenth graders followed the new program (10-year learning system) At general schools, it was anticipated that English would be taught to all students Regarding higher education, Vietnam set a goal that by 2020, 60% of intermediate schools would offer a two-year program, 100% of junior colleges would offer a three-year program, and by 2025, 90% of intermediate schools would be able to meet the third level of the Vietnamese six-scale, which rates English proficiency (Vietnamnet, 2016) However, according to statistics of the Ministry of Education and Training, English was the subject with the most candidates scoring below the average in the 2022 national high school graduation exam with 446,648 students, a rate of 51.56% This subject had 423 candidates with only 0 points The results of the analysis of the scores of the country's English high school graduation exam in 2022 showed that there were 866,196 candidates taking the English test, of which the average score was 5.15 points, the median score was 4.8 points the score with the most candidates achieving is 3.8 points Number of candidates with score