Email this article FACTORS AFFECTING MOTIVATION IN LEARNING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES AMONG STUDENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AT DONG THAP UNIVERSITY
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Received: 25/05/22 Revised: 30/06/22 Published: 30/06/22Authors
Tran Ngoc Gai
, Dong Thap University
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Motivation plays an important role in enhancing students’ English learning performance. This paper presents an experimental study designed to measure factors affect motivation in learning English for specific purposes. As part of the study, a structured survey was administrated to a comfortable selected sample of 169 learners from Department of Economics at Dong Thap University. Data collected through the survey were subjected to some basic statistical analyses, such as description statistics, test of scale Cronbach’s Alpha reliability, exploratory factor analysis, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis. These results obtained show that teachers, environmental factors and materials had positive influence in motivation in learning English for specific purposes. It was expected that the factors for instrumental motivation and integrative motivation would be positively affected in motivation in English for specific purposes, but this was not the case. In addition, the number of implications and conclusions are offered to motivate learning English for specific purposes.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.34238/tnu-jst.6045
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