English Learning Motivations for Students in the College of Foreign Languages and Engineering F She-mei Wang F Yu-lin Her F Pei-an Liu F Je-kai Bai Advisor: Dr. Syou-rung Tsau

Overview I.Introduction II.Literature Review III.Methodology IV.Results and Discussion

1.1 Background of the Study the importance of learning English

1.1 Background of the Study the importance of learning motivation to the success of learning English

1.1 Background of the Study the problem of the insufficient learning motivation for college students

1.2 Purposes of the Study to investigate English learning motivations of students in the College of Foreign Languages and Engineering to compare English learning time and purposes between students in the College of Foreign Languages and Engineering

1.3 Research Questions 1.What are English learning motivations for students in the College of Foreign Languages and Engineering? 2.Is there significant difference of English ability between students in the College of Foreign Languages and Engineering? 3.Is there significant difference of English self-learning time among students of different grade levels?

1.3 Research Questions 4.Do college students have specific English learning purpose? 5.Do students in the College of Foreign Languages and students in the College of Engineering have different English learning purposes? 6.Is there significant relationship between English self- learning time and English ability for students in the College of Foreign Languages and Engineering?

3.1 Participants and Sampling

3.2 Instruments ContentsQuestionReliability college of study1.72 (cronba α) grade level2 English score3 English self-learning time4 English-learning motivations5 English-learning purposes6

3.3 Data Analysis Methods Descriptive statistics t-test ANOVA goodness of fit test test of independence correlation analysis

4.1 English Learning Motivations

4.2 English Ability NMeanSDTp College of Foreign Languages College of Engineering

4.3 English Self-learning Time Grade LevelNMeanSDFp sophomore junior senior

4.4 English Learning Purposes Purposesf % χ2χ2 p for a job3424% for a certificate3222% for studying abroad75% to be an English teacher 43% personal interest2517% school requirement4129%

4.5 Comparison of English Learning Purposes job certificat e study abroad English teacher interest requireme nt Foreign Languages 21 15% 22 15% 7 5% 3 2% 9 6% 11 8% Engineering 13 9% 10 7% 4 3% 0 0% 16 11% 27 19% χ 2 = 18.84, p =.0021

4.6 Relationship between English Self- learning Time and Ability College of Foreign Languages scoretimeTp score time0.911 College of Engineering scoretimeTp score time

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