A Correlation Study Between The Reform Of CET4/6 And Non-English Majors' Intrinsic/Extrinsic Motivation

College students' English learning motivation is one of those many research subjects drawing much attention from Chinese language scholars. Many researchers (Gao, 2003; Shi, 2000) have proved that a very important motivation type for Chinese college students' English learning is "certificate motivation", of which CET certificate is the most dominate one. Certificate is an important index of extrinsic motivation, but in the CET reform conducted from June 2005, the certificate is replaced by a piece of result report, besides, the test questions also have some changes, therefore, it is of great importance to investigate the influences on learners' English learning motivation imposed by CET reform.Based on Deci and Ryan's (1985) intrinsic/extrinsic motivation dichotomy, this thesis adopts quantitative approach to study the relation between CET reform and the two motivation types. This study is undertaken for the following purposes: firstly, to identify non-English majors' English learning motivation, intrinsic or extrinsic, and then study the correlation between students' motivation type and their English proficiency; secondly, to identify whether CET reform imposes any influences on students with different motivation type (intrinsic/extrinsic), and if there is, to analyze what the influences are, positive or negative; finally, to provide some useful suggestions on how to enhance non-English majors' English learning motivation after the reform.156 non-English majors from Jinan University participated in the questionnaire investigation. Data collected suggest: many non-English majors' English learning motivation is extrinsic and CET certificate is the most conspicuous one (Mean=3.2546); the correlation between intrinsic motivation and English language proficiency is higher than that between extrinsic motivation and language proficiency (∑IM=2.393＞∑EM=1.905); the results also suggest CET reform imposes negative influences on those with "certificate motivation" (p＜0.05) but could not affect those with intrinsic motivation (p＜0.01).