Influence Of English Learning Strategies And Motivation On Senior High School Students' English Study

This dissertation has used the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning(SILL) composed by American famous applied linguist Rebecca Oxford and the Motivation Inventory for English Learning. The characters of the English learning strategies and the status of the English learning motivation of the total subjects have been examined and analyzed.The subjects are chosen from Guangdong, Shandong and Guizhou provinces, where the economy, culture and education have developed differently. The characters of the English learning strategies and the status of the English learning motivation have also been examined and analyzed between grades, gender, arts and science, different regions, city and country, different nationalities.The relationship between English learning strategies & English learning motivation and English achievement has been analyzed. The results show that:1.Senior-high-school students use English learning strategies occasionaly. They are good at employing cognitive,metacognitive and memory strategies,and rarely use affective,social and compensation strategies. The level of external motivation is higher than internal motivation.2.There is significant difference between the employment of English learning strategies and grades, but there is not between the levels of English learning motivation and grades.3.There is significant difference between English learning strategies & English learning motivation and gender.Girl students use strategies more frequently than boy students and their learning motivation is stronger than boy students.4.There is significant difference between English learning strategies and students of arts or science, but there is not between English learning motivation and those of arts or science. Art students employ English learning strategies more frequently than science students.5.There is significant difference between English learning strategies and students from different regions, but there is not between English learning motivation and those from different regions.6.There is no significant difference between English learning strategies & English learning motivation and students from cities or the country & different nationalities.7.There exists a significant correlation between English learning strategies & English learning motivation and English achievement.