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Wei, Xiaoxia; Weerasawainon, Aeksing – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2024
Being able to use a foreign language to communicate will increase an individual's opportunities of employment and personal growth, which implies the significance of adopting a lifelong learning approach to language learning. This study was conducted to explore language learners' lifelong learning tendency in general and the key factors affecting…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Chemir, Sileshi; Kitila, Tamene – Cogent Education, 2022
This paper discovers the role of learner's needs analysis in English for academic purposes courses in higher education before designing any language curriculum. The research is essential as it can be used to support students to be aware of their motivation to learn and a basis for teachers in helping students improve their learning motivation.…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, English for Academic Purposes, Student Needs, College Freshmen
Sarat K. Doley – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
This article describes the findings of a study on the correlations between English as second language (ESL) motivation, understood as a product of the stimulus appraisal system, and writing proficiency in English among undergraduate Indian ESL learners. The principal objective of the study was to analyze the correlation between the undergraduate…
Descriptors: Correlation, Learning Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kanoksilapatham, Budsaba; Khamkhien, Attapol; Kitkha, Pensinee; Na Nongkhai, Angsu-orn – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2021
The increasing global and local demands to improve citizens' English proficiency have augmented the significance of English education across the entire paradigm. Meanwhile, motivation has been endorsed as one of the pivotal driving forces that propels the success of language learning. This study represents a large-scale motivational study,…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Undergraduate Students, Science Education, Humanities
Yeh, Huei-Chen – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study aims to examine the college students in Taiwan for the attributes of how their English test scores are being affected by language learning strategy use. The university is recognized as a second-tier technology university in Taiwan, as the students are considered to have low levels of English proficiency and learning motivation. A group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Scores, Learning Strategies
Putwain, Dave; Whiteley, Helen; Caddick, Lee – Educational Research, 2011
Background: It has been claimed that thematic or integrated approaches to curriculum delivery offer a range of advantages over subject-based modes of delivery including improved pupil motivation. Purpose: This study put claims regarding pupil motivation to the test, using the achievement goals framework. This contemporary approach to understanding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Design, Student Motivation, Program Effectiveness
Ghadirzadeh, Reyhaneh; Hashtroudi, Fariba Pourabolfathe; Shokri, Omid – English Language Teaching, 2013
The present study investigated the effect of university students' demotivational status, language learning strategies and learning style preferences on their underachievement in English language learning. To begin, 260 Iranian undergraduate students were selected through the multi-stage cluster sampling method. They were put into two successful…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Underachievement

Lens, Willy; Decruyenaere, Marleen – Learning and Instruction, 1991
Characteristics of motivated and demotivated students in humanities and high and low technical secondary education were studied for 1,824 Belgian students in the eighth, tenth, or twelfth grade. Subgroups based on motivation were formed using student self-ratings, teacher ratings, and scores on predictor measures. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Humanities, Learning Motivation