TAILIEUCHUNG - Factors affecting engineering students’ motivation in practising english speaking skills at college of urban works construction

Factors affecting engineering students’ motivation in practising english speaking skills at college of urban works construction. Speaking is one of the most important skills to be developed and enhanced as means of effective communication. However, many students do not have enough motivation to practise speaking English though motivation is one of the vital factors determining the success or failure of language learning. | Tạp chí Khoa học Ngôn ngữ và Văn hóa ISSN 2525-2674 Tập 1, Số 3, 2017 FACTORS AFFECTING ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN PRACTISING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS AT COLLEGE OF URBAN WORKS CONSTRUCTION Ton Nu Ai Quyen* College of Urban Works Construction Received: 12/09/2017; Revised: 19/10/2017; Accepted: 27/12/2017 Abstract: Speaking is one of the most important skills to be developed and enhanced as means of effective communication. However, many students do not have enough motivation to practise speaking English though motivation is one of the vital factors determining the success or failure of language learning. This paper aims to discuss factors affecting first-year engineering students’ motivation in practising English speaking skills at College of Urban Works Construction (CUWC). The participants were 90 first-year engineering students and 8 English teachers. The findings showed that there were four groups of factors that affect students’ motivation: (1) Students’ factors; (2) Teachers’ factors; (3) Classroom factors; (4) Other factors. Besides, some suggestions on how to promote the motivation in practising English speaking skills for engineering students of CUWC were given. Key words: motivation, speaking; factors, practice, engineering students 1. Introduction These days, Vietnam is in the integration with international labour market when considerably participated in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) as well as more foreign investors focus on this potential market. This requires students not only have specialized knowledge but also need to be proficient in English, especially English speaking skills to get more job opportunities. English has become a common language not only for business, diplomacy, science but also for communication. Obviously, practising speaking English regularly helps them to be able to communicate with different people in the world as well as to success in the competitive job market. However, in reality, most of engineering .

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• Factors affecting engineering
• Students’ motivation
• Practising english speaking skills
• Urban works construction
• The most important skills
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