Abstract
In this paper, we provide an online learning community for learners to study English on it. Meanwhile, to promote excellent English books, this community holds regular Reading Challenge contest which is a large-scale and nationwide English competition in Taiwan for high school students. The study is based on related motivation theory to explore the learners’ participative motivation in contest. Total 15 interviewees are as our subjects in this study. After data analysis, we divide learners' participative motivation in contest into: participative intrinsic motivation, participative extrinsic motivation, and participative interpersonal motivation. The phenomenon and implication behind participative motivations are deliberately discussed. Finally, this study also proposes the suggestions respectively for learners and instructors on further research as well as for sponsors on activity design of nationwide English contest in the future.
| Translated title of the contribution | The Preliminary Exploration of Participative Motivation on an Online English Reading Community |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Pages (from-to) | 171-179 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | 亞東學報 |
| Issue number | 34 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- online learning community
- participative motivation
- learning motivation
- English reading competition