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A Study of Myanmar Students Motivation for Learning English at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to investigate the patterns of Myanmar students motivation for learning process in English language at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University. The research examined the patterns of students motivation in terms of two motivational constructions which were instrumental motivation and integrative motivation. This research method for the study was both quantitative and qualitative methods. The populations of in this study were 218 Myanmar students including 126 first-year students, Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts, and 92 Myanmar students, Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts which are faculties of Buddhism, Humanities, and IBSC in academic year 2019-2020 at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University, and the numbers of 139 samples were selected out of 218 only Myanmar students according to determine sample size calculator in survey software (1982). It had produced a table for determining sample size, and the table allowed for confidence level 95% and an error of margin of 5% based on this table. Therefore, researcher used that the sample of 139 Myanmar students requested the tick the questionnaires that related motivation of learning process in English language at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University, and 10 participants were interviewed by researcher. The data were analyzed by using SPSS program, and presented in descriptive statistics for percentage, mean score and standard deviation and content analysis method.
The results revealed that Myanmar students had the higher level instrumental motivation than integrative motivation in learning process in English language at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University. Moreover, there were many reasons why Myanmar students study many subjects, such as the English language at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University. Many respondents had problems for learning process in English language at Buddhist Universities ipn Myanmar, such as the educational policy, education systems, traditional teaching methods and not connect each other Buddhist Universities in Myanmar. The results of interviews revealed from the situations of Myanmar students motivation in learning process in English language. Interestingly, the majority of Myanmar students showed their preference to study many subjects, such as the English language at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University than at Buddhist Universities in Myanmar. Finally, the research findings could contribute to develop learning process in English language and to be international standard of university at Buddhist Universities in Myanmar.
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