A Study on the Demotivators in English Learning of Chinese non-English Majors

DOI

10.2991/ssphe-18.2019.2How to use a DOI?

Keywords

demotivation, demotivators, English learning

Abstract

Demotivation means that the learners, once motivated to learn, lose interest and energy in English learning so that learning English would become a suffering and time-consuming task. The present study has developed a five-Likert scale demotivation questionnaire. 193 sophomores were taken as the subjects. The exploratory factor analysis indicates there are seven factors in the demotivation construct: teaching content, interpersonal relationships, ability beliefs, value placed on the task, class surroundings, teaching facilities, difficulty in learning as well as extra-curriculum activities. One-way ANOVA analysis reveals significant differences in factors like ability beliefs, teaching content, teaching facilities, and value placed on the task between the strong-motivated and the less motivated students, while no significant differences exist in other factors.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Jingjing Zeng
AU  - Wei Zhang
AU  - Wenxia Sun
PY  - 2019/01
DA  - 2019/01
TI  - A Study on the Demotivators in English Learning of Chinese non-English Majors
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Science, Public Health and Education (SSPHE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 12
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/ssphe-18.2019.2
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