学习动机对高中生英语学习的影响-教育专业毕业论文.pdf

Effects of Motivation on High School Students’ English Learning 2002 MED: Tang Wei Supervisor: Professor Tang Gaoyuan，Associate Professor Li Dongmei Abstract This thesis results from observation, interview, consulting documents ， investigation，special case study，experience summary, etc. It consists of six parts. The first part comes as an introduction. In this part the writer mainly states the significance of motivation study to high school English teaching. The second part is about the essentials of motivation. Motivation is the driving power, the intrinsic cause which encourages people to take action to achieve their goals and a psychological mood in which individuals start and keep their behavior. Motivation is the major factor of learning process. The motivation of a person decides the quality, level, and effect of his activities. Learning motivation is one of the motivations of human beings ’ behavior and a strong desire for knowledge .It is an intrinsic cause of promoting English learning, and it is an active psychological state when a learner is learning a foreign language. There are different types of motivation, such as: integrative motivation and instrumental motivation, intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation, indirect long-range motivation and direct short- range motivation, achievement motivation, deep motive and surface motive. Motivation has the following functions: 1. Stimulating function stimulating one’s enthusiasm for learning; 2. Choice and instructional function deciding what to do and encouraging one to study hard; 3. Maintaining and regulating function maintaining one