Task Motivation and Student Motivation in an English for Occupational Purposes Course at the Tertiary Level in Hong Kong

A Case Study

This dissertation, "Task Motivation and Student Motivation in an English for Occupational Purposes Course at the Tertiary Level in Hong Kong: a Case Study" by William, Lau, 劉威倫, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of thesis entitled Task Motivation and Student Motivation in an English for Occupational Purposes Course at the Tertiary Level in Hong Kong: A Case Study submitted by William Lau for the degree of Master of Arts at the University of Hong Kong September, 2003 This dissertation is an account of a qualitative research study conducted on a class of final year higher diploma students at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University during the second semester of 2003. The report details the experiences of students as they undergo tasks in an EOP course called 'English in the Workplace'. Drawing on teacher diary-entries, video-recordings and interviews with students, this report is a description of the researcher's observations of student motivation as they carry out learning tasks, the students' appraisals of those tasks and the analysis of all the data that are collected. This study looks at student motivation from the classroom context and attempts to describe the factors that affect student motivation at the tertiary level. It is an exploratory study that attempts to capture and analyse the motivated behaviours of students as they engage in various tasks, providing a picture of the complex nature of the motivation and its relationship with the learning process. DOI: 10.5353/th_b2705525 Subjects: Motivation in education - China - Hong Kong - Case studies English language - Study and teaching (Higher) - China - Hong Kong - Case studies Learning, Psychology of - Case studies

This dissertation, "Task Motivation and Student Motivation in an English for Occupational Purposes Course at the Tertiary Level in Hong Kong: a Case Study" by William, Lau, 劉威倫, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, ...