The psychological and cognitive factors causing college students’ demotivation to learn English in China

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...

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Autores principales: Ren, Xiaobin, Abhakorn, Jirapa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9413958/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36033048
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.890459
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-94139582022-08-27 The psychological and cognitive factors causing college students’ demotivation to learn English in China Ren, Xiaobin Abhakorn, Jirapa Front Psychol Psychology 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. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9413958/ /pubmed/36033048 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.890459 Text en Copyright © 2022 Ren and Abhakorn. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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