A Study of Thaksin University Students’ Motivation in English Language Learning
Keywords:
Motivation, Motivational intensity and Motivational internal variablesAbstract
This research was studied the differences and relationships in motivation, motivational intensity, motivational internal variables and English proficiency between the high and low proficiency groups in 8 faculties subjects. The subjects were 1,530 first year TSU students in academic year 2010. The instrument was the questionnaire on subjects’ motivation, motivational intensity and motivational internal variables in English learning, the content validity was 0.95 and the reliability coefficient was 0.90. The data were statistically analyzed for frequency, percentage, mean, SD, t-test, F-test and Pearson correlation coefficient. The findings are summarized as follows : 1) There were differences and relationships between high and low proficiency groups in overall motivation, motivational intensity, overall motivational internal variables and English proficiency. 2) There were differences between faculties of study in their overall motivation, motivational intensity, motivational internal variables and attitudes in 8 faculties. There were related among motivation, motivational intensity and English proficiency in 6 faculties, but the motivational internal variables were related with their English proficiency only in 2 faculties.
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