The Impact of Motivation on Students’ Desire to Want to Learn a Second Language
| dc.contributor.author | Aracena, Enid | |
| dc.contributor.program | Masters of Education | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-11T16:01:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-05-11T16:01:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-05-11 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study was to determine whether holding students to higher standards, rewarding desired behavior, teaching interesting content, and creating student-to-teacher relationships would have an impact on students’ motivation to want to learn Spanish in a Spanish 3 H class of 19. The study used a quasi-experimental pretest/posttest design to determine whether students’ motivation would increase as a result of the strategies. The measurement tools involved a posttest/postsurvey designed by the researcher and two documents to track students’ participation and homework completion. The study began at the end of February and was interrupted mid-March due to the shutdown of schools in Maryland. Because of the school closure, no significant improvement was recorded for motivation as the researcher did not have adequate time and a proper school environment to fully implement the strategies. The results of this study are inconclusive due to the fact that there was a pandemic and the researcher did not have any means to conclude the study. The mean participation rate increased by a statistically significant and practically significant amount from pre to partially implemented post. The homework completion rate for Tinita also improved by a statistically significant amount from pre to partially implemented post. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 33 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | action research papers | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2guuq-i5qk | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/18546 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation | Master of Education | |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Goucher College, Baltimore, MD | |
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| dc.subject | Motivation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Types of Motivation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Effects of Motivation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Student Achievement and Motivation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Motivation in the Foreign Language Classroom | en_US |
| dc.subject | Motivation in High School Students | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Education -- Research papers (Graduate). | |
| dc.title | The Impact of Motivation on Students’ Desire to Want to Learn a Second Language | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |