著者

田中 博晃

出版者

大学英語教育学会

雑誌

大学英語教育学会紀要 (ISSN:02858673)

巻号頁・発行日

no.50, pp.63-80, 2010

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The current study aims to enhance students' intrinsic motivation in different achievement levels (TOEIC 420 level, 550 level, and 690 level). In more detail, the purposes of this study are as follows: (1) to enhance intrinsic motivation to listening activity of three groups; (2) to enhance intrinsic motivation to speaking activity of three groups; (3) to enhance intrinsic classroom motivation of three groups. This study further explores facilitating factors of intrinsic motivation. Thus, this article also aims (4) to examine which psychological need (the need for autonomy, competence or relatedness) plays the most significant role in students' motivational development. 138 university students who were enrolled in a first-year English language course participated in this study. The intervention was given to them for fifteen weeks. The questionnaires were administered three times (at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the intervention). The data were collected in both qualitative and quantitative way and the results were discussed with educational implications.