Study on the Correlation Between Vocabulary Learning Motivation and Vocabulary Acquisition Among Students of Joint-education

Tan Yanju

《IETI Transactions on Social Sciences and Humanities》 1卷 (2018/12) Pp. 61-71

https://doi.org/10.6896/IETITSSH.201812_1.0009

摘要

This thesis explores the distributions of seven types of vocabulary learning motivation, the correlations among motivation, breadth of vocabulary knowledge and depth of vocabulary knowledge by the investigation into 109 non-English majors from joint-education classes. The results from the experiment and data analysis mainly conclude that the subjects are strongly motivated by motivation of going abroad in the process of vocabulary acquisition, and there is significantly positive correlation between breadth of vocabulary knowledge and depth of vocabulary knowledge for the full sample. However, compared with the highest positive correlation score of low level group, middle-high level group shows negative correlation between breadth of vocabulary knowledge and depth of vocabulary knowledge, which indicates the development of their depth of vocabulary knowledge doesn't strengthen with the increase of their vocabulary quantities all the time, the lexical breadth and lexical depth among the subjects at big vocabulary size are negatively interrelated. Joint education, which refers to the educational cooperation between universities home and abroad, is popular in our country nowadays. As the students in this project need a higher level of second language (L2) proficiency for the chance to study abroad in the last two years of their university life, educators should pay adequate attention to them to satisfy their special requirement in foreign language learning compared with those who finish their higher education only in domestic education system.

關鍵字

Vocabulary learning motivation ； Breadth of vocabulary ； Depth of vocabulary ； Correlation