- 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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