Encouraging Mature Age Students To Study English
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21630%2F20%3A00341098" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21630/20:00341098 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2020" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2020</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/inted.2020" target="_blank" >10.21125/inted.2020</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Encouraging Mature Age Students To Study English
Original language description
Lecturers of English sometimes bemoan the lack of student motivation to read texts in English and ask what they can do to improve it. Although mature age students are usually highly motivated learners, they think of themselves as incompetent in English classes. We wanted to get deeper insight into their study motivation and improve the role of teacher as motivator. We identified what the primary motivating factors are for mature age students to attend university (extrinsic or intrinsic motives) and then questioned teachers on what their practices were for professional development in order to improve mature age learner performance. Motivation of mature age students to university study. We asked students to indicate their main reason for study. We divided motivation into 3 main categories: „means to an end“, „personal development“, and „external inspiration“. Figures given in the paper reveal the proportion of students who were placed into each category out of a university sample of 184 mature age students aged 29-45. Further analysis of the responses pointed to 3 domains: personality of students, personality of teacher and methods used in teaching. The paper deals with these areas in detail.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
INTED2020 Proceedings
ISBN
978-84-09-17939-8
ISSN
2340-1079
e-ISSN
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Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
510-515
Publisher name
IATED Academy
Place of publication
Valencia
Event location
Valencie
Event date
Mar 2, 2020
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
000558088800088