A Survey On The Current Situation Of Students’ English Learning Demotivation In Rural Senior High School

Learning motivation is a key factor affecting students? academic record.It plays a key role in language learning and teaching.The related research on how to stimulate learning motivation has been very in-depth.Based on extensive research,it has been found that newly developed learning motivation may decline again because of the instability of the motivational factors,and the factors that stimulate and trigger the demotivation are inconsistent,thus it is not enough to study the strategy of maintaining motivation,so the research of demotivation is also very necessary.D?rnyei pointed out demotivation known as“absence of motivation” or “negative motivation”,which refers to “a reducing or weakening of certain external forces of behavior motivation”.Demotivation is particularly obvious in rural areas where education is relatively backward.For example,students lose interest in English learning,refuse to spend time and energy,and use various excuses to avoid English learning.These phenomena occur relatively common in rural senior high school students?English learning which has attracted widespread attention from researchers in the field of English education at home and abroad.Therefore,the relevant research on English learning demotivation should be continuously deepened.To understand the overall level of demotivation of rural senior high school students in English learning and further understand the factors that contribute English learning demotivation of rural senior high school students,the author conducted an investigation and research on students from Senior high school in rural area of Inner Mongolia.Based on attribution of success and failure theory,reinforcement theory,the author hands out questionnaires to 165 students and interviews 12 of them in order to answer the following two questions:(1)What is the overall level and changing trend of students English learning demotivation in rural senior high school?(2)What are the major factors that affect the demotivation of rural senior high school students in English learning?It is found that:(1)The phenomenon of demotivation in English learning of rural senior high school students occur widespread and serious,and the overall demotivation level is gradually increasing.In addition,among different grades,the demotivation of second grade students is the most obvious.(2)There are five major contributing factors leading to the current demotivation of rural senior high school students: student related factors,compulsory learning factor,teacher related factors,course related factors,and environment factors.By analyzing the results of questionnaire and comparing them to those of former research the author founds that: students believe that their own problems are the biggest reason for the demotivation in English learning,followed by compulsory learning factors;while urban city students believe that the most important factors contributing their learning are course related factor and teacher related factors,and compulsory learning factors are not main factors influencing the formation of demotivation in urban city;there is no difference in the environment factors between urban city and rural arear demotivation.According to the research results,it can be drawn that students should change their negative perceptions of English,make reasonable attributions,and use learning strategies correctly;teachers should improve their professional skills and sense of responsibility,and to strengthen students? good behavior in time;in terms of curriculum,the author suggests to expand teaching materials,deal well with the connection of junior and senior high school courses and teachers should taker to create real situations for learning English so as to improve the classroom learning environment.