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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Main Author: Liu,, Pik Ha
Format: Final Year Project Report / IMRAD
Language:English
English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS 2008
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description 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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spelling unimas-67682024-10-04T08:39:00Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6768/ Undergraduates' motivation to learn English through short story :a survey on ESE students in UNIMAS Liu,, Pik Ha P Philology. Linguistics PE English 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. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS 2008 Final Year Project Report / IMRAD NonPeerReviewed text en 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 text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6768/7/LIU%20PIK%20HA%20ft.pdf Liu,, Pik Ha (2008) Undergraduates' motivation to learn English through short story :a survey on ESE students in UNIMAS. [Final Year Project Report / IMRAD] (Unpublished)
spellingShingle P Philology. Linguistics
PE English
Liu,, Pik Ha
Undergraduates' motivation to learn English through short story :a survey on ESE students in UNIMAS
title Undergraduates' motivation to learn English through short story :a survey on ESE students in UNIMAS
title_full Undergraduates' motivation to learn English through short story :a survey on ESE students in UNIMAS
title_fullStr Undergraduates' motivation to learn English through short story :a survey on ESE students in UNIMAS
title_full_unstemmed Undergraduates' motivation to learn English through short story :a survey on ESE students in UNIMAS
title_short Undergraduates' motivation to learn English through short story :a survey on ESE students in UNIMAS
title_sort undergraduates' motivation to learn english through short story :a survey on ese students in unimas
topic P Philology. Linguistics
PE English
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6768/
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http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6768/7/LIU%20PIK%20HA%20ft.pdf