A study of non-English majoring students' proactivity toward English language acquisition at Ho Chi Minh City University of Food Industry

Thi Ngoc Lan Thao Ngo
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Learners' ability and attitude are usually the most important determinants of language acquisition success. If students have passive initiatives in thinking and acting, it might have negative consequences. The study's goals are to investigate students' proactivity in learning English, discover the disparities in factors faced by three specializations, and draw some teaching implications at Ho Chi Minh City University of Food Industry (HUFI). This study used qualitative descriptive research of 108 non-English-majored students from Business Administration, Food Technology, and Mechanical Engineering who attended a fifteen-week English 1 course. The survey of three questions with twelve items covers behavioral, cognitive, and emotional aspects of language attitudes. The findings reveal that students generally have an average proactive attitude toward English. On the other hand, the three majors are very different in terms of gender and attitudes toward English. Mechanical students had a little less proactive attitude than students in the other two specializations.
胡志明市食品工业大学非英语专业学生英语习得主动性的研究
学习者的能力和态度通常是决定语言习得成功与否的最重要因素。如果学生在思考和行动上被动主动,可能会产生消极的后果。本研究的目的是调查学生学习英语的积极性,发现三个专业面临的因素差异,并得出一些教学启示胡志明市食品工业大学(HUFI)。本研究对108名非英语专业的工商管理、食品技术和机械工程专业的学生进行了定性描述性研究,他们参加了为期15周的英语课程。该调查包含三个问题和十二个项目,涵盖了语言态度的行为、认知和情感方面。调查结果显示,学生对英语的积极态度一般。另一方面,这三个专业在性别和对待英语的态度上有很大的不同。与其他两个专业的学生相比,机械专业的学生的积极态度略显不足。
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