An Investigation Into The Motivation Of Secondary Vocational School Students' English Learning And Its Implications For English Teaching

All human behaviors come from certain motivation. As a kind of activity, English learning results from certain motivation. If we have a basic understanding of the strength and type of the English learners' motivation, it will be useful for English teachers to adjust the teaching behavior to foster and adjust the learners' motivation, and meanwhile to make sure that the process of learning is smooth and will achieve better pedagogical results.Gardner and Lambert introduced their classic constructs of "integrative" and "instrumental" motivation in the learning of a non-native language. Motivation can also be classified into "Intrinsic motivation" and "Extrinsic motivation" according to some educational psychologists. There are some other classifications of motivation.Chinese secondary vocational School students, a special community, are not valued by the whole society. Generally speaking, these students' English level is low and some of them don't want to learn English. Based on the saying 'Motivation is the key to all learning.' It is necessary to investigate English learning motivation of secondary vocational school students to better motivate their English study.In this thesis, statistical methods are employed to analyze data from questionnaires on motivation orientation of English study of secondary vocational students. We find that students of secondary vocational schools show particular characteristics of motivation. Students' low level of English mainly results from their inadequate efforts which have resulted from their low motivation.Some implications have been drawn from the study about how to motivate vocational students' English learning and how to improve English teaching in secondary vocational schools.