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1.1 Definition of Motivation
"Motivation" originated from the Latin word "Move", which meansarousing and driving activities. From the modem psychological view,motivation is the internal drive for individuals to arouse, maintain andmake an effort to attain a goal. “Given motivation, anyone can learn alanguage (Skehan, 1989)，，，from which we can understand that motivationis a key factor to language acquisition (Ellis, 1997). Researchers alsoagree that motivation "is a very important if not the most important factorin language learning (Van Lier, 1996)", Thus, there is no doubt thatmotivation has been widely accepted as the extraordinarily importantfactor affecting the success of L2 learning, and most people agree thatlearning always occur when learners are motivated ( Williams & Burden,2000). But what the motivation really is?Some early researchers regard motivation as the role of instincts, drivesand energy (Taylor, 2001). In modem times, since it is clear thatmotivation is not only connected with the basic needs of human beings,but is also dealt with the learning effect, motivation research has beenmoving from the psychology area to the educational field.
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1.2 Classifications of Motivation
There are so many classifications of motivation, the most typicalclassification belongs to intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation.Gardner's integrative and instrumental motivation is also famous in theresearch field. In this paper，from the viewpoint of SDT, the authorelaborates the relationship between IM and EM carefully, then introducesother kinds of motivation classifications simply. Since definitions of motivation are various, the classifications ofmotivation are also multi-facet. Based on Deci's Self-determinationTheory (1985), there are three kinds of motivation : intrinsic motivation,extrinsic motivation and amotivation. In accordance with the reason why people choose to act in certainways, it is quite clear that there are different types of reasons. Sometimeswe do something because we enjoy doing or in other words, we areinterested in the activity itself.
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Chapter Three Results and Discussion........... 42
3.1 Descriptive Statistics of Motivational Questionnaires.......... 42
3.2 Analysis of Two Motivational Questionnaire Surveys.......... 45
3.3 Correlations between Students' Motivation ..........50
3.4 Comparison between the Pre-test & Post-test for EG & CG.......... 52
3.4.1 Descriptive statistic analysis of Pre-test & Post-test ..........52
3.4.2 Variance Analysis of Pre-test & Post-test.......... 54
3.5 Discussion of Major Findings ..........55
3.5 Discussion of Major Findings.......... 55
3.5.1 Correlation between Motivation and Oral.......... 55
3.5.2 The Present Motivational Situation among Students.......... 57
3.5.3 Good Effect of Motivation Incentive Teaching..........60
3.6 Summary ..........63
Chapter Four Major findings, Implications and Limitations.......... 58
4.1 Major Findings.......... 58
4.2 Pedagogical Implications.......... 59
4.3 Limitations.......... 63

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