应用语言学research proposal

南通大学外国语学院

专业选修课课程作业Research Proposal

专业方向：英语翻译

学生姓名：蒋坚荣

学号：0907032046

研究领域：应用语言学

指导教师：何旭良

On the Cultivation of Motivation of College Students in English Learning

Proposal Abstract

1.Background and context

2.Research focus

3. Methodology

This thesis is mainly about how to cultivate learners’ motivation in the course of English teaching; some of the prominent theories about motivation both in psychology and education are also introduced. This paper has four parts, the first part tells the purpose, motivation and significance of this study. The second part introduces the definition, classification of motivation and factors that influence motivation in psychology and education according to the books referred. The third part is of the most importance in this paper, the means about how to cultivate motivation during the English process are clearly introduced in this part. The last one is a conclusion about this thesis.

Research Questions

1. What’s the classification of motivation?

2. What are the factors that affect the motivation?

3. How to cultivate learning motivation?

Research Proposal Outline

I.Introduction

1.Introduction to the subject

2.Importance of subject

3.Intention of the study

4.关键词：选题背景；选题价值；学术贡献

With the development of society and the integration of the global economy, English in China is playing an increasingly important role. This requires our country to pay more attention to make a major improvement and contributions in areas of English language education. Motivation has an undoubtedly evident effect on second/foreign language learning. It is generally considered as one of the main determinants of second/foreign language learning achievement.So Cultivate

motivation is necessary. In light of the important roles motivation study plays in the language teaching process, we should pay more attention to the research and cultivation of learning motivation in order to get a better learning achievement.

II.Literature Review

1.History and related research of the topic

2.Research questions or hypotheses

3.关键词：该领域的历史与现状；研究问题或假设

This section presents a general review of motivation theories both in psychology and education, this part makes no attempt to analyze those theories in the two aspects in great depth or review all the relevant motivation theories, because such detailed work is beyond the scope of this paper. Only some major representative theories of each approach as well as their implications to language learning are presented here.Standard by the motivation of different categories, you can better understand the importance of motivation in English teaching.

III.Methodology

1.The overall research design

Undertake an interview of students from different schools and ask them to keep a diary on what motivation they had in learning English and then answer a questionnaire about their scores of TEM4 and TEM6. We compare these motivation with their resulting scores and then draw a conclusion.

2.Participants

100 students from different colleges and universities

3.Procedures

Interview& Diary & Questionnaire

4.Data analysis

Analyze the data and draw a conclusion.

5 关键词：整体性的研究设计研究步骤数据分析

This is mainly through the proposing of the problems, such as “How to cultivate learning motivation?” and then analysis of the problems and analysis of the problems in cultivation of motivation in English learning, such as related theories about factors that influence motivation,