少数民族地域中学生英语学习成绩学习目的与家庭背景的相关性实证研究(2)

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Researches on English learning difficulties and solutions
Researches on English learning difficulties and solutions, on the one hand, focused onanalyzing difficulties and causes; on the other hand, put forward specific solutions towardEnglish learning difficulties.Zhou Li (2013) published an article entitled Special Difficulties and Causes ofMinority Students in Their English Learning: A Case Study of Yi Nationality in Yunnan.Investigating 400 students in Chuxiong Yi autonomous prefecture with an EnglishLearning Difficulties and Learning Attitudes Questionnaire, she found out that factors suchas students' living conditions, lifestyle, living habits, and learning style would influencetheir English learning. Middle school students of ethnic minority had more difficulty inlistening and speaking, but less in grammar, comparing to students of the Han nationality.Their learning plans were not specific，and their aims were uncertain. The mainreasonconcerning these difficulties was a lack of English communication environment.Meanwhile, suffering from language transformation between minority language, Mandarin，and English，they felt difficult to learn English.

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Chapter III Methodology..... 15
Subjects..... 15
Instrument..... 15
Procedures..... 16
Data Collection..... 17
Data Treatment.....17
Summary..... 18
Chapter IV Findings..... 19
A Descriptive Profile of the Subjects..... 19
Hypotheses Tested .....19
Summary .....35
Chapter V Reflections..... 36
A Summary of the Study 36Discussion..... 37
Limitations and Recommendations .....39
Concluding Statement..... 40

CHAPTER IVFINDINGS

A Descriptive Profile of the Subjects
General demographic information of students was generated from basic information ofstudent questionnaire, and parents' from item 1，2，3，4，and 5 in the parent questionnaire.Sixty-five percent，or 148，of the students involved were minority students, including Li(118, or 53 percent), Miao (13, or 6 percent), Zhuang (9，or 4 percent), Yao (5，or 2percent), and Hui (1，or 0.4 percent). Sixty percent, or 135 of the students, has everparticipated various English activities, like English extra-curricular tutorial (88，or 40percent), English competition (61, or 27 percent), and interesting activity classes (11, or 5percent).Sixty-eight percent, or 154, of the parent respondents were father, and 71，or 32percent, of them were mother. Taking the parent participants as a whole, 71 percent ofthem had received secondary education; 17 percent of them received primary education;only 12 percent of them received higher education. Half of the parents investigated werefarmer; twenty percent were worker; twelve percent of them run some small business; onlytwelve of them were intelligentsia, like teacher or government staff; and the rest of themwere not employed or self-employed.

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Conclusion

In this study, the relationships between students’ English learning motivation, theirEnglish achievement, and family background were investigated. Two self-reportedquestionnaires for students and parents were conducted in Hainan minority areas. Thesubjects were identified from two representative middle schools. Most of the students wereminorities, like Li，Miao，and Yao. Both Han students and minority students with theirparents were involved in this study. The sampling strategy assured that the participantscontained cases which represented the overall level of the minority area investigated.The survey questionnaires were initially distributed to 262 students from six classes aswell as their parents; 258 student questionnaires and 236 parent questionnaires werereturned. 22 student questionnaires without their parents' questionnaires were discarded; 11of the rest questionnaires did not have usable information. Thus, the final number ofparticipants was 225. Factor analysis, Correlation Analysis, Crosstabs, and, One-WayANOVA with LSD were the major statistical programs applied to test the 10 hypotheses inthis study. All analyses were performed on investigated cases. The acceptance or rejectionof each hypothesis was decided according to the test results.

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