Examining the motivation and achievement of Vietnamese university students as they undertake English classes

Title: Examining the motivation and achievement of Vietnamese university students as they undertake English classes
Creator: Bang, Truong Cong; Archer, Jennifer
Relation: English Tertiary Education in Vietnam p. 145-157
Relation: Routledge critical studies in Asian education
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315212098
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2019
Description: This chapter examines the motivation to study English and how that affects Vietnamese tertiary students’ English assessment results. Non-English major students in three universities in Ho Chi Minh City were surveyed and interviewed in a study that found that students’ expectations about how they would perform on the examination corresponded with their results. Seeing English as a way to obtain a desirable job (“utility value”) appeared to strongly influence these students’ willingness to take extra English classes. Given the government’s desire for greater competence in English, effective strategies are recommended.
Subject: university students; English examination; English classes; Vietnam
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1441541
Identifier: uon:41459
Identifier: ISBN:9781351814645
Language: eng

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