Autonomous learning applying for expectancy motivation theory on English education

Abstract

The seven-year educational program at KOSEN is suitable for global engineering education although the motivation of KOSEN students is lower than that of other high school students or college students of the same age. It's difficult for English teachers to diversity of students' motivation into account within their restricted time of their classes. We consider that the fundamental solution is to raise learner autonomy. We defined that the meaning of “to teach autonomous learning” is to help a learner to have the ability to take charge of one's own learning by oneself. In this paper, a new education model was proposed to teach autonomous learning by using expectancy motivation theory. A new instructional method suited for the new model was tested to create autonomous English learners over the course of 5 years. In this report, the effectiveness of the education method was also discussed by a comparison of successful learners and general students.