Master minor programme thesis English linguistics: The relationship between language learning motivation and language learning strategy use of Vietnamese employees at honda company, Vietnam

This study was conducted with an aim of exploring the relationship between motivation and instructed LLSs use by Vietnamese employees at Honda co, Vietnam, especially the role of motivation types in explaining and predicting the L2 learners‟ LLS use. To fulfil this aim, firstly, this study focused on identifying the extent of the use of trained LLSs of Vietnamese employees at Honda Vietnam in learning English.
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Master minor programme thesis English linguistics: The relationship between language learning motivation and language learning strategy use of Vietnamese employees at honda company, Vietnam VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOIUNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES ******************* HOÀNG THỊ HOA THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE LEARNING MOTIVATION AND LANGUAGELEARNING STRATEGY USE OF VIETNAMESE EMPLOYEES AT HONDA COMPANY, VIETNAMMỐI QUAN HỆ GIỮA ĐỘNG LỰC HỌC NGÔN NGỮ VÀ VIỆC SỬ DỤNG CHIẾN THUẬT HỌC NGÔN NGỮ CỦA NHÂN VIÊN NGƯỜI VIỆT CÔNG TY HONDA, VIỆT NAM M.A. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60140111 HANOI - 2016 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOIUNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES ******************** HOÀNG THỊ HOA THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE LEARNING MOTIVATION AND LANGUAGELEARNING STRATEGY USE OF VIETNAMESE EMPLOYEES AT HONDA COMPANY, VIETNAMMỐI QUAN HỆ GIỮA ĐỘNG LỰC HỌC NGÔN NGỮ VÀ VIỆC SỬ DỤNG CHIẾN THUẬT HỌC NGÔN NGỮ CỦA NHÂN VIÊN NGƯỜI VIỆT CÔNG TY HONDA, VIỆT NAM M.A. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60140111 Supervisor: Tô Thị Thu Hương, PhD HANOI - 2016 DECLARATION I hereby declare that my thesis submitted for the Faculty of Post-GraduateStudies, University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam NationalUniversity, apart from the help recognized, is my own work. Also, this paper hasnot been submitted to any other formal course of study. Hanoi, 2016 Ho ng Thi Hoa i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to send my thank you to many individuals for their invaluablehelp during the conduct of the research. First and foremost, I would like to express my profound gratitude to mysupervisor, Dr. To Thi Thu Huong, who gave me enthusiastic instructions, precioussupport and critical feedback on the construction of the study. This has always beenone of decisive factors in the completion of this thesis. Second, I also wish to thank all the doctors and lecturers of the Faculty ofPostgraduate Studies, University of Foreign Languages and International Studies,Vietnam National University, Hanoi for their valuable lectures, which are partlyapplied in this study. Next, I would like to send my deep sense of thanks to Vietnamese employeesat Honda Co., Vietnam for their cooperation and the valuable information theyprovided in my research field. Furthermore, I would like to give my heartfelt thanks to my family andfriends, especially my boyfriend, Thanh Nguyen, and my best friend, Sao Bui, whohave always been helpful to me throughout the research. Last but not least, I thank almighty the graders and readers for their interests,evaluation and feedback on this thesis. ii ABSTRACT This research aims to investigate the correlation between language learningmotivation and language learning strategy use by Vietnamese employees at Hondacompany. To seek answers for the issue, a questionnaire was conducted to collect theanswers from 120 Vietnamese employees at Honda company. The first section ofthe questionnaire was about how often the students used instructed strategies inlearning English and found out whether these students use any other strategies thaninstructed ones, and the second section was created to collect information about theparticipants‟ motivation level. The data were then analyzed and presented in theforms of frequency, percentage and charts and tables. The results indicated that allthe instructed strategies were used by the majority of the respondents and theparticipants also applied some other strategies that could be considered belonging tomemory and social groups in their English learning, and among the four types ofmotivation, their reported instrumental motivation was of the highest level.Importantly, the study found a significant, positive, and moderate correlation betweenmotivation and language learning strategy use. Moreover, different types ofmotivation are shown to have different correlations with strategy use. Finally, thesignificant contributions of integrative and intrinsic motivation to strategy use wererevealed, which went beyond the correlational analysis for the relationship as oftenobserved in other studies. iii TABLE OF CONTENTSACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................... iiTABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................. ivLIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ........................................................................................... viLIST OF FIGURES ......................................................................................................... viiCHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................... 1 1.1. The statement of problem and rationale for the study .................................... 1 1.2. Significance of the study ......................................................................................... 3 ...