A Correlative Study On The Motivational Adjustment Strategies And Students’ English Achievement In Senior High School

The English Curriculum Standards for Senior High School(2007)points out that teaching should stimulate students’ learning motivation and reflect learners’ main position in English class.At the same time,learning motivation fluctuates with time during the long English learning process.This undoubtedly has a negative impact on the cultivation of learners’ autonomy,which further affects learners’ foreign language learning process.Therefore,the use of motivational adjustment strategies is particularly necessary.At present,researchers mainly focus on the use of motivational adjustment strategies in college students,but there are few studies on the current situation of motivational adjustment strategies in high school students and their relationship with English scores.However,students of different ages have different degrees of controlling and regulating motivation.For this reason,the author decided to take senior high school students as the research object,adopting the two forms of stereotyped research and quantitative research to carry out the research on the correlation between motivational adjustment strategies and English performance.The purpose of this study is to explore the following questions:(1)What is the overall situation of the use of motivational adjustment strategies in high school students?(2)What are the differences in the use of motivational adjustment strategies among high school students of different genders?(3)What are the differences in the use of motivational adjustment strategies among high school students of different English levels?(4)Does there exist a correlation between motivational adjustment strategies and senior high school students’ English performance? If there exists a correlation,which kind correlation is it?This study adopts the form of quantitative research and stereotyped research to conduct a survey on 356 high school students from Feidong Shangzhen middle school and uses SPSS19.0 to analyze the data.At the same time,this study selects six students randomly for one-to-one interviews to assist the questionnaire survey so that we can ensure the reliability and validity of the research results.The study reveals that:(1)In the process of learning English,high school students usually use eight motivational adjustment strategies,and the mean value of strategies is3.5325,which has reached the high frequency.(2)Overall,there are significant differences in the use of English learning motivational adjustment strategies among different genderlearners.Girls’ mean value of motivational adjustment strategies(M=3.6710)is higher than boys’ mean value(M=3.3996).(3)There are significant differences in the use of English learning motivational adjustment strategies among different English levels’ learners.High-English-level’ s mean value of motivational adjustment strategies(M=3.8265)is higher than low-English-level’ s mean value(M =3.1607).(4)The eight motivational adjustment strategies are positively correlated with the English scores of senior high school students to varying degrees,among which the Negative Based Incentive,Self-Efficacy Enhancement,Task Value Enhancement and Volitional Control are moderately positively correlated,while Mastery Self-Talk,Performance Self-Talk,Interest Enhancement and Self-Reward are weakly correlated..Based on the above findings.It can be concluded that the use of motivational adjustment strategies will indeed play a positive role in adjusting the English learning process of senior high school students,thus promoting the improvement of students’ English performance.Therefore,English teachers should actively observe students’ regulation in their own motivation and help students to choose appropriate adjustment strategies.At the same time,students themselves should also strengthen the understanding of the regulation of motivation and then take measures to control the fluctuation of learning motivation to improve the learning effects.Of course,there are still some shortcomings in this study,such as limited collection of samples and insufficient investigation scope.It is hoped that future research can make up for the shortcomings of this study and make the results more comprehensive.