Among the factors affecting students’ learning, motivation is one of significant reason for students performance. Everybody needs to have motivation and some reasons for every action. When learning second language, learners need to have high motivation and they should offer every opportunity to get their goal. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between motivation and English language performance among English as a foreign language of learners at Tra Vinh Medical College. We considered two aspects which are integrative and instrumental motivation in this paper. Additionally, the study aims to recognize the factors influencing the learners’ motivation and how motivation affects learners’ performance. There were 120 learners who will be surveyed by a questionnaire, they participated into this survey to reflect their orientation in learning English and they also want to recognize which affects negatively their English learning motivation. In addition, their English language performance also will be collected to investigate the relationship between the motivation and the performance of learners. Based on the findings, the researcher will give some recommendations to both teachers and learners in Tra Vinh Medical College. At last, the researcher also hopes that this study could bring much benefit for developing teaching and learning English in this school.
HUYNH THI HONG XUAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING VINH UNIVERSITY - INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOTIVATION AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE AMONG EFL LEARNERS AT TRA VINH MEDICAL COLLEGE HUYNH THI HONG XUAN INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOTIVATION AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE AMONG EFL LEARNERS AT TRA VINH MEDICAL COLLEGE MASTER’S THESIS IN EDUCATION COURSE 24 Nghe An, 2018 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING VINH UNIVERSITY - HUYNH THI HONG XUAN INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOTIVATION AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE AMONG EFL LEARNERS AT TRA VINH MEDICAL COLLEGE MASTER’S THESIS IN EDUCATION Major: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Code: 8.14.01.11 SUPERVISOR: Assoc Prof Ph.D Ngo Dinh Phuong Nghe An, 2018 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my deepest and sincere gratitude to my supervisor Assoc Prof Dr Ngo Dinh Phuong who gave me encouragement, support, friendship and patience through my whole research He has also provided me numerous valuable comments, ideas, information as well as suggestions whenever I have had some problems in my research In addition, I would also thank all my colleagues, friends and students who help me to participate in my research, answering my questionnaires and giving advice in order to I can finish this research Thank you so much for their participants and involvements Last but not least, I would like to thank my family members for their warm encouragements as well as their understanding They have given me strong supports and wise counsel that I value immeasurably This thesis has been completed by having all of their efforts and contributions ABSTRACT Among the factors affecting students’ learning, motivation is one of significant reason for students' performance Everybody needs to have motivation and some reasons for every action When learning second language, learners need to have high motivation and they should offer every opportunity to get their goal The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between motivation and English language performance among English as a foreign language of learners at Tra Vinh Medical College We considered two aspects which are integrative and instrumental motivation in this paper Additionally, the study aims to recognize the factors influencing the learners’ motivation and how motivation affects learners’ performance There were 120 learners who will be surveyed by a questionnaire, they participated into this survey to reflect their orientation in learning English and they also want to recognize which affects negatively their English learning motivation In addition, their English language performance also will be collected to investigate the relationship between the motivation and the performance of learners Based on the findings, the researcher will give some recommendations to both teachers and learners in Tra Vinh Medical College At last, the researcher also hopes that this study could bring much benefit for developing teaching and learning English in this school TABLE OF CONTENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABSTRACT TABLE OF CONTENTS LISTS OF TABLES AND CHART CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Rationale 1.2 Aims of the study 1.3 Objectives of the study 1.4 Research questions 1.5 The scope of the study 1.6 Data collection 1.7 The organization of the study CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Theoretical background of motivation 2.1.1 Conceptions of motivation 2.1.2 Types of motivation in foreign language learning 2.1.2.1 Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation 2.1.2.2 Integrative and instrumental motivation 11 2.2 The role of motivation in Second Language Acquisition 15 2.3 Factors that affect learners’ motivation 18 2.3.1 Internal factors 18 2.3.1.1 Goals setting 18 2.3.1.2 Expectancy 19 2.3.2 External factors 19 2.3.2.1 Teachers’ factors 19 2.3.2.2 Feedback 20 2.3.2.3 Classroom environment 21 2.4 Factors demotivating foreign language learning 21 2.5 Teaching English at Tra Vinh Medical College 24 CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 27 3.1 Introduction 27 3.2 Participants 27 3.3 Data collection 27 3.3.1 Data collection instrument 27 3.3.2 Procedures 28 3.3.3 Data analysis procedures 29 CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 30 4.1 Demographic information 30 4.2 Learners’ motivation in learning English 37 4.3 The relationship between motivation and English language performance 39 4.4 The demotivating factors 42 4.5 Discussion 44 4.5.1 Instrumental and integrative motivation 44 4.5.2 Factors that affect learners’ motivation 46 4.5.3 Factors demotivating foreign language learning 47 4.5.3.1 Subject demotivating factors 47 4.5.3.2 Teachers as demotivators 50 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 54 5.1 Conclusion of the study 54 5.2 Implications and recommendations of the study 55 5.2.1 Implications of the study 55 5.2.2 Recommendation of the study 57 REFERENCES APPENDIX LISTS OF TABLES AND FIGURE Lists of table Table Percentage of participants’ gender 30 Table Percentage of participants’ majors 31 Table Percentage of participants’ birthplace 31 Table Percentage of participants’ religion 31 Table Relationship between gender, major, birthplace and religion with integrative motivation 32 Table Relationship between gender, major, birthplace and religion with instrumental motivation 32 Table Relationship between gender, age, birthplace and religion with learners’ performance 33 Table Participants’ interested in studying English 34 Table Age, Time for studying English and Average score of participants 34 Table 10 Participants’ score 35 Table 11 Participants’ English performance 35 Table 12 Relationship between interest and time for studying English of learners with learners’ performance 35 Table 13: Factors affecting participants’ motivation 36 Table 14: Mean of instrumental motivation 38 Table 15: Mean of integrative motivation 39 Table 16: Correlation coefficients between instrumental/ integrative motivation and learners’ performance 40 Table 17: Multiple regressions model 41 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Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon Zughoul, M (1987) Restructing the English Departments in the Third World Universities IRAL.XXV/3: 221-236 APPENDIX Survey Questionnaire Section 1: Demographic information Read the following questions and answer them by writing your answer in the space: You are a non-English major student, what major are you studying? …………………………………………………………………………………… What is your gender? Male Female What is your age? …………………………………………………………………………………… Where were you born? …………………………………………………………………………………… What is your religion? …………………………………………………………………………………… Do you like studying English? Yes Don’t know No How many hours you spend learning English every day? …………………………………………………………………………………… What is your average point for English subject? …………………………………………………………………………………… How you think your English performance is? Very poor Poor Average Good Very good 10 Which factors that affect your motivation in studying English? (You can choose more than one answer) Goals setting Expectancy Teachers’ factors Feedback Classroom environment Section 2: English learning experience and motivation The following statements represent different reasons why you are studying English Please read each statement carefully and tick on the appropriate cell in each statement Strongly Statements disagree (1) Instrumental Motivation I have to use English in my future career I want to get good position I want to get good income I want to broaden my knowledge I want to know and communicate with foreigners I want to learn various events around the world I can read textbook I can understand English movie, program video or radio Disagree Neutral Agree (2) (3) (4) Strongly agree (5) I want to search for English information on the internet 10 I want to get good mark 11 I want to further my study 12 I want to travel to English speaking countries 13 Learning English make me feel happy 14 Learning English can give me a sense of achievement 15 The knowledge in English can enhance the achievement in various aspects 16 Other people will respect me more if I know English 17 An educated person is supposed to be able to speak English Integrative Motivation I want to be a part of English – speaking groups I want to keep in touch with foreign friends and acquaintance I want to learn about foreigners’ lifestyle in English speaking countries The more I get to know native speakers, the more I like/ appreciate them I want to learn their culture and various English speaking people I want to participate in the activities of other cultural groups I want to understand English arts, literatures and history I want to understand the relation between languages, cultures and native speakers’ lifestyles Section 3: Which one of the following factors demotivated you when studying English? (You can choose more than one answer) The English teachers speak rapidly during the lesson The teachers become angry when I answer wrong The teachers don’t usually use the modern technological aids The number of lexical items which we should memorize is very large The English textbook is difficult and boring English structures (grammatical rules) are complicated The difficulties in understanding what I listen in English My numerous errors Are there any factors you like to add them? …………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………… ... language, learners need to have high motivation and they should offer every opportunity to get their goal The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between motivation and English. .. addition, their English language performance also will be collected to investigate the relationship between the motivation and the performance of learners Based on the findings, the researcher... FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 30 4.1 Demographic information 30 4.2 Learners’ motivation in learning English 37 4.3 The relationship between motivation and English language performance