MOTIVATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS TO LEARN BILINGUAL COURSES
Yuan Yuan Liu , Lu Lu Chen, Fa Ying Zhang, Cheng Yang, Min Yu Zhao
Pages: 397-414
Published: 1 Oct 2022
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Abstract: A key objective of higher education institutions is to facilitate effective learning, but motivation to learn plays an important role in promoting effective learning. This study aims at revealing higher education students motivation to learn bilingual courses. Applying interviews as a research method, this study develops a questionnaire based on literature of motivation to learn. Four motivational factors “attention”, “relevance”, “satisfaction”, and “confidence” are adapted to examine higher education students’ motivation to learn bilingual courses. This study also suggests corresponding skills in teaching and education to arouse and promote higher education students’ motivation to learn bilingual courses. As China is developing an integrated and high quality higher education system with the biggest number of higher education students in the world, this study takes China higher education students as an example, unfolding their motivation to learn bilingual courses.
Keywords: higher education, teaching in foreign languages, motivation to learn, bilingual courses
Cite this article: Yuan Yuan Liu , Lu Lu Chen, Fa Ying Zhang, Cheng Yang, Min Yu Zhao. MOTIVATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS TO LEARN BILINGUAL COURSES. Journal of International Scientific Publications: Educational Alternatives 20, 397-414 (2022). https://www.scientific-publications.net/en/article/1002407/
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