An Empirical Study on Factors of Senior High Students’ English Learning Demotivation (ELD): A Perspective of Falout’s Three-dimension Framework

Abstract

This current paper reports a study exploring the factors distracting senior high school students’ English learning motivation. Utilizing questionnaire as the major instrument, this study targeted 120 students aged 17-18 in two high schools in China. The results indicate nine demotivators, namely, teacher immediacy (M=5.37; SD=.97), value (M=4.41; SD=1.40), self-confidence (M=4.27; SD=1.31), course level (M=4.20; SD=1.39), help-seeking (M=3.73; SD=1.68), grammar-Translation (M=3.72; SD=1.62), self-denigration (M=3.52; SD=1.79), enjoyment-seeking (M=3.05; SD=1.70) and avoidance (M=2.64; SD=1.61). In the final part of the paper, the implications are presented accordingly.