学习者的动机对外语学习的影响---毕业论文.docVIP

【标题】学习者的动机对外语学习的影响 【作者】陈 敏 【关键词】影响；动机；外语学习；教师；学生 【指导老师】王 露 【专业】英语 【正文】Ⅰ. IntroductionIn the process of learning a language, some learners are more successful while others, even given the same opportunity, fail in language learning. This phenomenon confuses educators, so researchers begin to take individual differences to account for some of the variance in the level of proficiency attained by language learners, and the focus has turned from how to teach to how to learn. Researches show that the determining effect on learning results originates from the learner. With the development of modern cognitive psychology, western researchers of foreign language learning have focused their research on the methods of learning. Actually learning is a complex cognitive process, during which the teachers play an external part, while the learners play an internal part. As language teachers, what they can do is to teach students how to learn, and to create a favorable environment of learning for them. In recent years, in the field of foreign language teaching, more emphasis has been put on the research of the learners. Many experts agreed that the learner plays an important role in the process of learning.?Language leaning is a rather complex psychological process and a common human cognitive activity as well. The process of language learning is affected by many elements such as motivation, interest, personality and emotion etc. Motivation is an important aspect of affective variables. The initial pioneering experiment by Gardner and Lambert find that foreign language achievement is related not only to language aptitude but also to motivation. Since then, the concept of motivation has become a central focus of a great deal of foreign language acquisition theories, and numerous studies have been carried out to investigate motivation. The results show that motivation plays a primary role in foreign language learning. And many studies have shown that motivation can be an