This study was conducted to examine the attitudes and motivational
intensity of 10th grade vocational high school students and to explore whether
there is any significant difference between Anatolian high school and high school
sections of vocational high schools and whether there is any significant gender
difference in terms of attitudes toward learning English, attitudes toward the
Anglo-Saxon culture and motivational intensity. Learners from three vocational
high schools in Bozü / yü / k, Bilecik participated in the study.
According to quantitative data analysis results, a significant difference
was found between Anatolian high school and high school sections of vocational
high schools in terms of attitudes and motivational intensity. Students at high
school sections were observed to have more positive attitudes and more
motivational intensity than students at Anatolian high school sections do.
Furthermore, a statistically significant difference was found between female and
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male students. Female students tend to have more positive attitudes and more
motivational intensity than male students do.
Related to the level of the participants&rsquo / attitudes and motivational
intensity, quantitative data analysis results indicate that vocational high school
students&rsquo / attitudes toward learning English, attitudes toward the Anglo-Saxon
culture and motivational intensity are above the average level. Qualitative data
analysis of the open-ended responses confirm the participants&rsquo / almost positive
attitudes toward learning English / however, it also points out that almost half of
the participants were found to have negative attitudes toward expending
personal effort to learn the Anglo-Saxon culture and over half of their openended
responses did not show any sign of motivational intensity.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12609935/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 September 2008 |
| Creators | Gokce, Sevgi |
| Contributors | Gokce, Sevgi |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.A. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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