MOTIVATION IN ENGLISH STUDY:Creating a Good Language Learning Environment

MOTIVATION IN ENGLISH STUDY:
Creating a Good Language Learning Environment
Wang Hai- tao
(The Foreign Language Faculty of Baotou Teachers’College)
Abstract:A good language learning environment is vital for students to pick up English well on the grounds of arousing their motivation in English study, students’financial background and their parents’educational background and the rapid development of China’s economy requiring more talents proficient in a foreign language, especially English. So nowadays the students have to study English well as soon as possible to be more confident in communicating with foreigners or hunting a good job. Meanwhile, colleges and universities attach greater importance to English learning than before, sparing no efforts to various teaching innovation to improve the students’English teaching and calling on
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researchers classify it in their own ways. Two researchers, Gardner and
Lambert (1972), have conducted the most e*tensive research into the role
of motivation in foreign language learning to draw such conclusion that
most people follow their classification. According to their classification,
there are two basic kinds of motivation, which they call“instrumental”
and “integrative.” What instrumental motivation tells people is that
wanting to learn a language because grasping a foreign language will be
useful for certain “instrumental”goals such as getting a job, reading a
foreign newspaper and passing an e*amination (Gardner). What is more,
what integrative motivation tells people: wanting to learn a language in
order to communicate with people of another culture who speak it
(Gardner).
While these understandings of the motivation are helpful, what is
more important for the language students is to realize the significance of
motivation in language learning. According to these understandings, if
the students want to get a good job, read a foreign newspaper, pass an
e*amination or communicate with people of another culture, they have to
try their best to learn a foreign language. This kind of internal drive
encourages them to continuously work hard.
There is an e*ample. A friend of mine who was third -year
chemistry major at Inner Mongolia University tells people his story.
When most of his classmates found it difficult to pass the CET 6 (College
English Test), which is held twice a year for non -English majors at
colleges and universities throughout the country, he took part in the
TOEFL test and scored 620, a high mark for a Chinese student. This
might surprise many people, but he said that he has an uncle in America
and his uncle had promised him that if he could do well on the TOEFL
test, his uncle would help him pursue his studies in America. Now he is
studying chemistry at a university in U.S.A. (Wang Dong 36).
This e*ample may not be a common one, but it is sure that people
can certainly think of situations in which certain“motivated”student can
do better than their peers. In order to turn their dreams into reality, the
“motivated” students would overcome any problems on their way.
Without a certain personal desire to learn, real learning cannot take
place. However, the students should know about the factors that can
influence motivation. What is more, the students should also know that a
good language learning environment, which can arouse their motivation,
plays a vital role in studying English.
In fact, learning a language is to learn a skill. It is well known that
the best way of learning a skill is to put it into practice. Learning the
skill requires people to continuously practice in a certain environment.
On the other hand, language learning is like a kind of conditioned refle*.
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