An Investigation On The English Learning Motivation Of Senior Students Majoring In Music

With the rapid development of the IT industry all over the globe, the whole world has stepped into a society of information and a world of networks. (from the world economic forum in 1997). According to the latest data from the Internet, over 70% of the information is in English. It is accepted that English has become an essential tool of gaining information around the world. Besides, English has been highly demanded by different kinds of occupations. It is a great advantage for hunting for a good job to have a good knowledge of English, so the importance of English in education has become more and more obvious. In"English Curriculum Criterion","Stimulating and fostering the students'interest of learning English, helping the students build self-confidence, training the students to have good learning habits and effective strategies, developing the students'competence of autonomic learning and team spirit, etc. is in the most important position."According to education psychologists, the motivation of learning English is the richest subjunctive initiative among many non-intelligence factors. To the majority of the students, there is no obvious difference among the their intelligence. The main reason why students have different learning results is mainly because of the development of their non-intelligence factors. Non-intelligence factors have become the sharpest point in studying education and teaching. Motivation is considered to be the most active among the non-intelligence factors. Few people had paid attention to the motivation in English learning until the 1990s. In this thesis, the 2 classes who major in music in Senior Grade 1 and 2 were surveyed about their interest, attitude, ability of learning English, methods, purposes, attribution bias and autonomic learning , the intrinsic factors and the external factors that mainly affect their English learning motivation are analyzed and some pointed suggestion were given.