Encouraging Mature Age Students To Study English

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Encouraging Mature Age Students To Study English

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Encouraging Mature Age Students To Study English

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

INTED2020 Proceedings

ISBN

978-84-09-17939-8

ISSN

2340-1079

e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

6

Strana od-do

510-515

Název nakladatele

IATED Academy

Místo vydání

Valencia

Místo konání akce

Valencie

Datum konání akce

2. 3. 2020

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

000558088800088