The survey conducted in Qingdao Agricultural University reveals the relationship between motivation and achievement as follows: instrumental motivation influences both high achievers and low achiever; while high achievers have greater integrative motivation than lower ones; Interest plays an extremely important role in study and high achievers have a strong sense of achievement.
Abstract-A survey from students of both Advanced and Ordinary English classes in Qingdao AgriculturalUniversity shows that most of the students are motivated by both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. However, intrinsic motivation is more important than extrinsic motivation in contributing to English learning. There is no difference in anxiety between students in Advanced English class and in Ordinary English class and the attitude of students in Advanced English class is more proper than that of students in Ordinary English class. Therefore, they are more active in English learning than the students in Ordinary English Class are. The higher autonomous learning ability they have, the better the achievement they get.
Abstract-By using questionnaire survey and interview method, this paper studies the difference in the use of Metacognitive Strategies by liberal arts students and science students in their English learning, and it also investigates the relationship between the use of Metacognitive Strategies and their performance in TEM-4. It is concluded that both liberal arts students and science students have some metacognitive awareness; however, compared with science students, liberal arts students have much more metacognitive awareness. Besides, the metacognitive strategies have some influence on students' academic performance, and liberal arts students perform better than science students in English learning.
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