Ren Xiaobin, Abhakorn Jirapa
National Institute of Development Administration, Bangkok, Thailand.
Hubei Business College, Wuhan, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Aug 12;13:890459. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.890459. eCollection 2022.
Demotivation is one of the important factors causing students' failure in learning a language. To explore the psychological and cognitive factors causing college students' demotivation to learn English in China's universities and to investigate the relations among these internal factors, this study constructed a shopping cart model by applying grounded theory method and tested the model by using structural equation modeling. This study found three paths underlying students' demotivation to learn English, originating from large discrepancy between students' actual and required positioning of English learning, low required positioning of English learning and low value of English learning in students' minds. Based on these findings, this study gave some pedagogical implications for English teaching.
学习动力不足是导致学生语言学习失败的重要因素之一。为了探究中国高校大学生英语学习动力不足的心理和认知因素，并调查这些内部因素之间的关系，本研究运用扎根理论方法构建了一个购物车模型，并使用结构方程模型对该模型进行了检验。本研究发现了学生英语学习动力不足的三条潜在路径，分别源于学生英语学习的实际定位与要求定位之间的巨大差异、英语学习的要求定位较低以及学生心目中英语学习的价值较低。基于这些发现，本研究对英语教学提出了一些教学启示。
