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Download full textWong, Ruth Ming Har – Online Submission, 2007
The main objective of this study is to investigate the motivation patterns of the two groups of Hong Kong students with different cultural backgrounds and examine the relationship between their motivation to learn English and English attainment. This study adopted the motivation framework of Dorneyi (2001) to investigate to what extent each social…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedStipek, Deborah J.; Weisz, John R. – Review of Educational Research, 1981
Conceptualization and measurement of the control dimension is discussed from three theoretical perspectives: social learning, attribution, and intrinsic motivation theories. For each of these, evidence on the relationship between achievement and perceptions of control is summarized. Recommendations are made for research which will advance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Elementary Secondary Education, Locus of Control
Peer reviewedMurphy, Karen – Distance Education, 1991
Describes a study that examined sociocultural influences on the attributions for success and failure among four distance learners in Turkey. The influences of patronage and oral tradition are discussed, and implications for applying Western-based attribution theory to distance learners in developing countries with more traditional cultures are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Attribution Theory, Case Studies
