Undergraduates' motivation to learn English through short story :a survey on ESE students in UNIMAS
This study aimed at finding out whether the learners were extrinsically or intrinsically motivated to take ESE as one of their E nglish generic courses, learners’ opinion on using short stories in English and methods of instruction in ESE course to promote interest in l...
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| Format: | Final Year Project Report / IMRAD |
| Language: | English English |
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Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS
2008
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6768/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6768/1/UNDERGRADUATES%E2%80%99%20MOTIVATION%20TO%20LEARN%20ENGLISH%20THROUGH%20SHORT%20STORY%20%2C%20A%20SURVEY%20ON%20ESE%20STUDENTS%20IN%20UNIMAS%2024%20pgs.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6768/7/LIU%20PIK%20HA%20ft.pdf |
| Summary: | This study aimed at finding out whether the learners were extrinsically or intrinsically
motivated to take ESE as one of their E
nglish generic courses, learners’ opinion on
using short stories in English and methods of instruction in ESE course to promote
interest in learning English. Lastly, this study intended to discover whether ESE
students are integratively or instrumentally
motivated to learn English after going
through ESE course. The respondents of this research were 219 ESE students who
registered
for
ESE c
ourse on Semester 1 2007/2008.
For the purpose of this study,
survey, only one instrument was used for data collect
ion.
There are four sections in
the questionnaire.
21
items
in Section A, B and C were self designed meanwhile 8
items
in Section D were adopted from Socio
–
Educational Model by Gardner &
Lambert (1979). Percentage and frequency count w
as used in analy
zing the data.
The overall findings illustrated that ESE students experienced high extrinsic
motivation with majority of them choosing ESE course as there was no final
examination. The results demonstrated majority
of the respondents agreed that
the
stor
ytelling, presenting drama scene and the selected short stories
promoted interest
to learn English
. The findings also revealed ESE students were both instrumentally
and integratively oriented in learning English after going through ESE course. |
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