A Study on Students’ Integrative Motivation for College English Learning in Chinese Universities

Abstract

In foreign language learning and teaching, learner's motivation is afocus and discussed by many researchers from various perspectives.College students' English learning motivation is one of those manyresearch subjects. It has great influence on the frequency of usinglearning strategies, the acceptance of second language input, theinteraction with the native speakers, the setting of goals and thelearner's determination of learning a foreign language. Based onGardner's motivation dichotomy, this thesis adopts quantitative approachto study the integrative motivation of Chinese college students. Thisstudy is undertaken for the following purposes: firstly, to identifystudents' integrative motivation, and then to provide some usefulsuggestions on how to enhance students' integrative motivation.