Factors that affect the motivation of fourth year english majors at hanoi open university in

HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ENGLISH

GRADUATION THESIS

FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE MOTIVATION

OF FOURTH-YEAR ENGLISH MAJORS

AT HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY

IN LEARNING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS

Name of student: Nguyen Hai Nam

Date of birth : 19/02/1997

Class : K22A.01

Supervisor : Nguyen Van Quang, Ph. D

Ha Noi – 2019

CODE: 02

DECLARATION

Title: Factors that Affect the Motivation of Fourth-year English Majors at

Hanoi Open University in Learning English Speaking Skills

I certify that no part of the above report has been copied or reproduced by

me from any others’ work without acknowledgement and that the report is

originally written by me under strict guidance of my supervisor.

Hanoi, 16 April, 2019

Student Supervisor

Signature Signature

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

During the process of making graduation thesis, I received a lot of

enthusiastic support, which helped and guided me through the past time.

First of all, I would like to express my sincere thanks to the board of

directors of the English Faculty of Hanoi Open University for facilitating

me to complete this graduation thesis.

Secondly, I honestly thank Mr. Nguyen Van Quang, my supervisor, who

has given me advices to fulfill my graduation thesis and thanks to those

guidance, I have improved my English skills a lot.

Thirdly, I would like to thank my friends who lent me a hand to conduct the

survey on a large number of students.

Finally yet importantly, I am grateful to the students of Hanoi Open

University, who took part in my survey and helped me to complete this

study.

In short, I really thank to all people who helped me finish my graduation

thesis.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter I: Introduction...................................................................................1

1.1. Rationale..................................................................................................1

1.2. Aims and objectives of the Study............................................................1

1.3. Scope of the Study...................................................................................2

1.4. Research questions...................................................................................2

1.5. Methodology............................................................................................2

1.6. Design of the Study..................................................................................3

Chapter II: Theoretical Background.............................................................4

2.1. Definition of Motivation..........................................................................4

2.2. Direct factors that affect learning English speaking skills.......................5

Chapter III: Methodology.............................................................................11

3.1. Data collection.......................................................................................11

3.1.1. Instruments.......................................................................................11

3.1.2. Participants.......................................................................................13

3.2. Data analysis..........................................................................................14

3.2.1. Instruments.......................................................................................14

3.2.2. Techniques.......................................................................................14

Chapter IV: Findings, Discussion and Recommendation..........................16

4.1. Findings about factors that affect students’ learning English speaking

skills motivation............................................................................................16

4.2. Discussion about factors that affect students’ learning motivation.......28

4.3. Recommendation to enhance motivation in learning English speaking skills

.......................................................................................................................36

Chapter V: Conclusion..................................................................................39

5.1. Summary................................................................................................39

5.2. Limitation...............................................................................................40

5.3. Suggestion for further research..............................................................40

References.......................................................................................................41

Appendices......................................................................................................42

TABLE OF FIGURES

Table 1 - Factors that affect students’ motivation in learning English

speaking skills 10

Table 2 - Factors, Question for each factor and meanings of question.......45

Graph 1 - Factor from learners and classroom environment (n=130).........17

Graph 2 – Factors from lecturers (n=130) 20

Graph 3 - Factors from family (n=130).......................................................23

Chart 1 - Reasons for choosing English as major at university..................25

Chart 2 - Substantial difficulties in English speaking skills........................27