Investigating Learners' Sense of Achievement： A Retrospective Study of 1st Year Japanese EFL University Students

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(1)Investigating Leamers’Sense ofAchievement：A Retrospective Study of 1st Year Japanese EFL University Students. 教科・領域教育学専攻言語系コース M08132A 上垣美沙子. extrinsic types（including several stages of. To date，despite the imp011＝ance of a. sense of achievement， empirical. extrinsic motivati011）within the廿amework. investigations fbcusing on this sense i11. of selトdete㎜ination theo収．0n this basis，. 1anguage leaming have been scarce in L2. the chapter expands on the reciprocal. research．. relationships that exist among three. This study aims to examine the. components：motivation，intemal factors，. nature of leamers’1mer psyche and the. and extema1曲。tors usi㎎Wi11iams and. leaming enviromment by investigating their. Burden’s丘amework（1997）Finally，other. experience of fee1ing a sense of. leamer variables such as anxiety，. achievement．To this end，a questio㎜aire. goa一一theory， a廿ribution theory， and. su岬ey and interviews were carried out．In. se1f−ef日。acy theory are discussed．. the present s血dy，however，fbcus was. Chapter 2 describes the overau. placed more on the inteMew data，. desi馴。ftheres鮒。h，First，thestre噌hs. Chapter l lays a theoretica1. and wea㎞esses ofthe qualitative data are. 缶amework危r this research．At the outset. discussed．In order to mderstand leamers’. of this chapter，working definition of o. English leaming histoW and their. sen∫e gブαcゐ’evemenf is given using the. perception of English l㎝guage leaming，. 丘amework of achievement motivation. real leamer was elicited to obtain. theoワ．Fonowing this is a classification of. qua1itative data． Then， the research. motivation，which consists of intrinsic and. schedule and processes of this study （a. 264.

(2) questiomaire su誠y and inte〃iew）are. eXamine eCleCtiC infOmatiOn uSing. described．The data analysis of the present. mustrated diagrams．In t11is study，two. study also has two areas：Study1and Study. points were di脆rent丘。m the original KI. 2，Study l fbcuses011the common胎atures. method in the process ofdata ana−ysis．Two. of the participants，while Study2describes. types ofdiagrams were created through the. the characteristics of each individua1．In the. process of analysis：Positive p砒ems and. next section，the nature ofretrospective data. negative p鮒ems．. is discussed． The11， the details of. Chapter 4 discusses five lea二mers’. investigation are outHned：the process of. language leaming experiences individually．. the pilot study， the participants， the. These five1eamers were selected based on. open−ended questionnaire，and the imte耐iew. specific criteria，a11d significant comments. The pilot study，whose paれicipa11ts were. were picked out丘。m the interview scripts．. first−year university students，consisted of. The discussion of this c11apter fbcuses on. ∼oprocesses：anopen−ended questiomaire. leamers’development at the Ieve1of their. su〃ey and an intemiew．. inner psycbe w舳re危rence to a sense of. Chapter3gives an analysis of the. achievement and the leaming environment．. overa11 data and discusses the results．. Chapter5summarizes the a11swers to. First1y，the data e1icitation is exp1ained．In. the research questions．FoHowing this，in. the subsequent section，the method of. the next section，some limitations of this. analysis，which was simi1ar to but slightly. study are pointed out．Then，to conclude. di脆rent缶。m the K∫me肋。a（Kawakita，. this paper，an out1ine of the points1eamed. 1967．1970） is described in much more. 冊。m this study is given．. detai1．The KJ method is a11 approach to. 主任指導教官中田賀之. 指導教官中田賀之. 265.

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