VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY - HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES VŨ TIIỊ HIẾN SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL FACTORS AFFECTING THE SFLDENTS’ MOTTVATION EIN LEARNING ENGLISIT LANGUAGE: A CASE STUDY IN SON THINH UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL IN VAN CHAN- YEN BAL Yếu tế xã hội: o đục ảnh hưởng đến động cơ học Tiếng Anh của học sinh trường trung học phố thông Sơn Thịnh- Văn Chắn- Yên Bái M.MINOR THESIS FIELD: ENGLISH TEACHING METHODOLOGY CODE: 60 14 10 HANOI- 2010 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY - HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES: VŨ TIIỊ HIẾN SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL FACTORS AFFECTING THE SFLDENTS’ MOTTVATION IN LEARNING ENGLISI LANGUAGE: A CASE STUDY IN SON THEINH UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL IN VAN CHAN- YEN BAL Yếu tế xã hội: o đục ảnh hưởng đến động cơ học Tiếng Anh của học sinh trường trung học phố thông Sơn Thịnh- Văn Chắn- Yên Bái M.MINOR THESIS FIELD: ENGLISH TEACHING METHODOLOGY CODE: 60 14 10 SUPERVISOR: NGUYEN THỊ THANH HƯƠNG. HÀ NOI - 2010 ii TABLE OF CONTENTS (Ackttowledgen1enifs. cà cọc ọ Họ HH nh nhưng th eee Abstract. - - ii ‘Table of contents.
iti List of figures and tables. " tinresirittees cies ctscee en WE Part T: INTRODUCTION 1 1. Objectives of the study 2 1. Methods of the study.
Scope of the study „2 1.6 Significance of the study.Design of the study. 3 Part Il: DEVELOPMENT Chapter 1: LITERATURE REVIEW 4 1. Theoretical background of motivation, 4 LL1 Definition of motivation. Theories of motivation ` 1.
vn nh nh re 13 1.2,3, Inrinsie mofiV8fiO. The rolzs of motivation in second language learning.4, Gardner’s socio-educational model. motivation of the students in Linglish leaming and to examine the influences of the socio-cducational (actors to their motivation, 1. Objectives of the study: ‘This study is aimed to investigate the motivation in learning English among the 10 graders al Son Thinh high school in Van Chan -Yon Bai.
To be nore specific, this study is aimed to achieve the following objectives: a. ‘To investigate factors affecting students in learning English b. To examine the inffuence of the social-educational factors to students’ motivation in learning English 1.Research questions: The study was canicd out with the view to finding out the answers to two rescarch questions below: * What is the students’ motivationto lean English at Son Thinh high school? * To what extent is their motivation influenced by the local socio-educational factors? 1.4, Methods of the study: This is a quantitative and qualitative research. To find the answers for the above research questions, the data is collected from the questionnaires and interviews.5, Scope of the study: “The main focus of the study is on the investigation of the students’ motivation and the influences of the local socio-educational factors to the students’ motivation, Given the aim of the study, I limited myself to focus on students in Son Think high school, situated in Van Chan (a remote area of Yen Bai mountainous province), The study is conducted with a group of 150 tenth-form students at Son ‘Thinh high school.
A qnestionnaire will be adriinistered to this number of students, and then sbout 10 questionnaire respondents will be chosen according to their willingness for semi- structured interviews. LIST OF FICURES AND TABLES Figure 1: Domyei’s framework of L2 motivation (1994: 78). 10 Figure 2: Williams and Burden's (1997) framework of 1. -12 ‘able 1: Partieipants’ Profile (N= 150).
--24 Table 2: Participants” attitudes towards, and purposes of, learning English (N=150) 25 Table 3: Participants’ weekly investment in learning English al home in terms of limne.26 Table 4: Participants’ sirategies for learning English at houne (N=50). 27 Table 5: Using Language Opportunitics 28 Table 6: Support Available to Participants’ Learmng Finglish (N=150). 2B ‘table 7: Parents’ Attitudes towards ‘heir Children’s Learning linglish (N=150) 2 a. Significance of the study: This study is carried oul with a hope thal language teachers, especially those teaching in remote areas, may be fully aware of the role and the importance of the sovio- educational factors toward students’ motivation to learn a second language, from the faclors affecting Son Thinh students" motivation in learning English (especially socio- educational factors), the teachers may find appropriate activities or methods to increase students’ motivation to learn English better b.
Design of the study: Part A- Introduction: provides rationales, aims of the study, research questions, scope, and the significance of the study and its design. Part B- Development: consists of four chapters + Chapterf Literature review on theoretical background of motivation and socio- educational factors affecting students’ motivation in second language learning. + Chapter IL: Context of the study: This chapter introduces the social context and educational context for the study. | Chapter Tt: Methodology: this chapler introduces subjects and data collection instruments.
+ Chapter IV: Data analysis and discussion. Part C: Conclusion: This part presents conclusions, implications, limitations and suggestions for further study. 1, Students’ awareness of the importance of English. Students? self-reported difficulties in learning Tnglish 32 4.4, Conditions for learning English.
Summary, 33 Part II : RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION.1, On students’ motivation „34 1. On social faotors aiTeoting their motivation. On educational factors affecting their motivation. Recommendations for teaching.
Limitations of the study. Suggestion for further study. Appendices motivation of the students in Linglish leaming and to examine the influences of the socio-cducational (actors to their motivation, 1. Objectives of the study: ‘This study is aimed to investigate the motivation in learning English among the 10 graders al Son Thinh high school in Van Chan -Yon Bai.
To be nore specific, this study is aimed to achieve the following objectives: a. ‘To investigate factors affecting students in learning English b. To examine the inffuence of the social-educational factors to students’ motivation in learning English 1.Research questions: The study was canicd out with the view to finding out the answers to two rescarch questions below: * What is the students’ motivationto lean English at Son Thinh high school? * To what extent is their motivation influenced by the local socio-educational factors? 1.4, Methods of the study: This is a quantitative and qualitative research. To find the answers for the above research questions, the data is collected from the questionnaires and interviews.5, Scope of the study: “The main focus of the study is on the investigation of the students’ motivation and the influences of the local socio-educational factors to the students’ motivation, Given the aim of the study, I limited myself to focus on students in Son Think high school, situated in Van Chan (a remote area of Yen Bai mountainous province), The study is conducted with a group of 150 tenth-form students at Son ‘Thinh high school.
A qnestionnaire will be adriinistered to this number of students, and then sbout 10 questionnaire respondents will be chosen according to their willingness for semi- structured interviews. PARTI INTRODUCTION, Rationale: Tn recent years, Viel Nant has been opening ils door to the world and to foreign investment, English is considered to play a crucial role in Jeading the country’s path to the modernization and industrialization. Besides working skills, knowledge, experiences, high Lnglish proficiency is extremely needed if people would like to have 4 good job in many ficlds such as economics, potities, cultures, scicnve, technology and towism, It is obvious that English is in a great demand in our society now, and it is made a compulsory subject at all kinds of schools in our country from the secondary schools to universities. However, English teaching and learning in Vicl Nam is still criticized to be far from satisfaction, For example, regarding the students’ proficiency in English, only a few people Gn big cities) can speak English fluently and use it effectively in their work, Most of the students after some years learning English at school do not gain high score in their state exam, especially the students in remote areas, The quality of teaching and learning English in Viet Nam is, there for, a big issue thal all (eachers, rescareliers and Tingun professors have bean coneorned about.
Efforts have been made to find out the solutions to those issues. In process of teaching and leaming English, there are many factors affecting the success of a lmguage loamor such as Isarncrs’ faclors, (eachers’ factors, learning language opportunities, social factors, educational factars. Among those factors, social and educational factors may affect not only the students’ leaming outcome but also their motivation to loam English. This issuc is more imporlanl to disadvantaged areas where both social and educational environments may not be conducive to English Janguage leaming and teaching.
Being a teacher of English in disadvantaged areas 1 see that the socio-sducational factors may affect much on the students” quality of English Icaming, Therefore, it is strongly desirable for me to propose an investigation into the influences of socio-educational factors to the students’ motivation in Son Thinh upper secondary school in Yen Rai. The intention in đoing this research is to figure oul the motivation of the students in Linglish leaming and to examine the influences of the socio-cducational (actors to their motivation, 1. Objectives of the study: ‘This study is aimed to investigate the motivation in learning English among the 10 graders al Son Thinh high school in Van Chan -Yon Bai. To be nore specific, this study is aimed to achieve the following objectives: a.
‘To investigate factors affecting students in learning English b. To examine the inffuence of the social-educational factors to students’ motivation in learning English 1.Research questions: The study was canicd out with the view to finding out the answers to two rescarch questions below: * What is the students’ motivationto lean English at Son Thinh high school? * To what extent is their motivation influenced by the local socio-educational factors? 1.4, Methods of the study: This is a quantitative and qualitative research. To find the answers for the above research questions, the data is collected from the questionnaires and interviews.5, Scope of the study: “The main focus of the study is on the investigation of the students’ motivation and the influences of the local socio-educational factors to the students’ motivation, Given the aim of the study, I limited myself to focus on students in Son Think high school, situated in Van Chan (a remote area of Yen Bai mountainous province), The study is conducted with a group of 150 tenth-form students at Son ‘Thinh high school. A qnestionnaire will be adriinistered to this number of students, and then sbout 10 questionnaire respondents will be chosen according to their willingness for semi- structured interviews.
Social and edueational factors affecting motivation. Sncie-educational faclors affecting motivation, 19 "hố. 20 Chapter II: CONTEXT OF THE STUDY. 12 Chapter IT: METHODOLOGY làn: `.
The data collection instruments ¬ ce ce DB 3. 24 Chapter IV: DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION.àc cà cà nhe e8 1. Attitudes towards English. Participants’ scl -cvaluation of their learning English - 17 4.
4, Participants’ investment in learning English. 5, Participants’ leaming strategies 28 4. 6, Participants’ Using Language Opportunities 4. Support for Participants’ = Learning English 29 4.
Participants’ Reported Challenges in and Opportunitics for iv 1S. Social and edueational factors affecting motivation. Sncie-educational faclors affecting motivation, 19 "hố. 20 Chapter II: CONTEXT OF THE STUDY.
12 Chapter IT: METHODOLOGY làn: `. The data collection instruments ¬ ce ce DB 3. 24 Chapter IV: DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION.àc cà cà nhe e8 1. Attitudes towards English.
Participants’ scl -cvaluation of their learning English - 17 4. 4, Participants’ investment in learning English. 5, Participants’ leaming strategies 28 4. 6, Participants’ Using Language Opportunities 4.
Support for Participants’ = Learning English 29 4. Participants’ Reported Challenges in and Opportunitics for a.