Ways to Encourage Students’ Motivation of Learning English_英语专业毕业论文.docVIP

Ways to Encourage Students’ Motivation of Learning English 毕业设计（论文）开题报告 一. 选题的依据及意义： In recent years in China, learning English has been a very prevalent tendency and it has become more popular and urgent as China succeeded in bidding to hold the 2008 Olympic Games and entering into the World Trade Organization. Mastery of a foreign language, especially English is viewed as a passport to one’s future success, thus, more and more people swarm into the tide of English learning. In addition, the English learners have become younger and younger that English courses are taught in Grade Three or Grade One of primary schools and even in kindergartens. Furthermore, most of parents send the children to some after-school English classes on the weekends in the hope of promoting the children’s English learning, yet some of the teachers and parents are in frustration of recognition of the children’s low attitude and grades in English learning. Therefore, as should know the psychological theory and the process of English learning in order to encourage and enhance the English learning of students. 国内外研究现状及发展趋势（含文献综述）： My research is mainly on second language acquisition of students attitude and learning definition on motivation and English learning. In the study of the second language acquisition, Politzer and McGroarty (1985) draw a conclusion that learners’ goals are likely to determine strategy use. Oxford and Nyikos (1989) report formally that motivation is related to language learning strategies. They come to a conclusion that the degree of expressed motivation is the single most powerful influence on the choice of language learning strategies; high motivated learners use more strategies relating to formal practice, functional practice and conversational input elicitation than do poorly motivated learners. After studying the reasons that adult students learn English for career at the US Foreign Service Institute, Ehrman (1990) points out that an instrumental motivat