Attitudes and Motivation Towards English: A Survey of Japanese Freshmen  

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Benson, Malcolm J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: RELC Journal (sebagian Full Text) vol. 22 no. 1 (Jun. 1991), page 34-48.
Fulltext: RELC Journal-1991-Benson-34-48.pdf (745.4KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/REL/22 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Over 300 freshmen in a Japanese university were surveyed to assess their attitudes towards English. In addition to a background profile addressing the student's amount of informal exposure to English, the survey asked for a self-assessment of English skills, the motivation for studying English, and the functions for which English was felt to be most useful. The results showed students who have had little exposure to English, and whose self-rating of their own skills showed extremely low morale. Surprisingly, integrative and personal reasons for learning English were preferred over instrumental ones. English was seen as being useful for a selection of modern functions, but not useful for domestic and local ones. Such findings pose problems concerning the role of English language teaching at university level in Japan. It remains unclear what precise combination of regulatory control, curriculum, methods, faculty, and texts would best achieve higher levels of motivation and achievement.

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