FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE MOTIVATION OF SECOND-YEAR MAINSTREAM STUDENTS IN SPEAKING LESSONS AT FACULTY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION, ULIS – VNUH =

Abstract

The principal objective of this research is to firstly figure out the internal factors and external factors that affect the motivation of second-year mainstream students in speaking lessons at FELTE, ULIS – VNUH. Secondly, the study is conducted to examine how these factors impact students’ motivation as perceived by both second-year mainstream students and the teachers. With the aim of gathering the data for all of the four research questions, 125 second-year mainstream students and 2 teachers were involved in completing the questionnaires. In order to enhance the reliability of the received information from the questionnaires, interviews were also carried out among 8 students and both of the teachers to help the researcher study and provide more details to the findings. The data analysis procedure lead the researcher to five main internal factors and external factors which influence FELTE, ULIS – VNUH second-year mainstream students’ motivation in learning English speaking skill which respectively were Goals Setting, Expectancy, Anxiety, Self-confidence and Self-efficacy; Teachers, Activities and Materials, Relevance, Feed-back and Classroom Environment. Among these factors, Goals Setting and Feed-back were agreed by most of the students and the two teachers to have great impacts on motivating students to speak English. In spite of this, there still existed some disagreement among students and teachers in other factors. Details about the effects of each factor on students’ motivation according to students’ perspectives and teachers’ perspectives will be revealed in chapter 3. Although the research was conducted seriously and carefully, limitations were inevitable. Therefore, these limitations as well as some suggestions for further researches will be presented in part 3.