Volume 29, Issue 1
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.116
EXPLORING DEMOTIVATION FACTORS OF CHINESE LEARNERS OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE BASED ON POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Abstract
For Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL), it is meaningful to identify the factors that suppress their motivation of EFL learning. For this purpose, a questionnaire survey was carried out among 265 Chinese EFL learners attending a Chinese-foreign cooperation program of Henan University, China. Then, the potential influencing factors were identified through a multi-factor analysis of variance, and the correlation between the students’ psychological demotivation intensity and their English test score was discussed through Pearson correlation test and regression analysis. The results show that teacher-related factor, self-related factor and institution-related factor are the main causes of psychological demotivation among Chinese EFL learners; the English test score has a significant negative correlation with psychological demotivation intensity; the freshmen and sophomores had an insignificant different in the institution-related factor. The research findings shed new light on the sustainable psychology development of Chinese EFL learners.
Keywords
Psychological Demotivation, Demotivation Factors, Positive Psychology, English as a Foreign Language (EFL).