Motivations in Developing inter-language Talk: A Study of Vocational College Business English Major

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10.2991/icpel-16.2016.17How to use a DOI?

Keywords

motivation, inter-language talk, vocational college, business English major

Abstract

Motivation in second language learning is indispensable and significant. In order to improve the motivation in inter-language talk and develop oral English competence, this paper presented the study of motivation in inter-language and focused on how much the motivation in developing competence of inter-language talk is. It implements questionnaire and interview to one hundred and forty five vocational college business English majors from motivation orientation, desire, attitude and effort. After analyzing and discussing the data, the results demonstrate that business English majors in vocational college are motivated to develop their English competence in inter-language talk and they are or more intrinsically motivated than extrinsically motivated. And the conclusion can be drawn from the study that inter-language talk is an effective way to improve oral English and English learning achievement. It is original in this paper to study the business oral English from the perspective of inter-language, which is new in second language learning in vocational collage.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TI  - Motivations in Developing inter-language Talk: A Study of Vocational College Business English Major
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Politics, Economics and Law (ICPEL 2016)
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