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most students as the respondents of this research had a good motivation in learning English. Second, the Relationship between Motivation and Students’ English Learning Achievement: A study of the Second – year vocational certificate level Hatyai Technical College Students research of Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songka University, Choosri had some factors responsible for low English proficiency of the majority of Thai students including traditional pedagogical prescriptive approaches Bunnag 2006, Forman 2005, Kongpecth 2004, the influence of Thai culture, EFL learning environments, and low motivation in learning a foreign language. After doing his research, the research showed 1 a high level of motivation in both high and low group. In high achievement group, the mean score of instrumental motivation was higher than the mean score of low achievement group, and 2 the motivation and English learning achievement were significantly positively correlated with each other. The result of the study indicated that there was a positive relationship between their achievement and motivation. This might be due to the fact that the students who got a high grade average in English courses tended to be interested in English learning. Third, Li found The Relationship between Motivation and Achievement- A Survey of the Study Motivation of English Majors in Qingdao Agricultural University, that motivation was taught to be a very important reasons for different achievement. People thought that it was reasonable for English major to learn English, since they chose English as their major. The subjects were junior of non- English majors. They had low motivation in learning English. Revealing the correlation among motivational factors and their influences in students English learning were: the instrumental motivation played an extremely important role in English major’s learning, both high achievers and lower achievers had higher instrumental motivation, high achievers had higher sense of achievement while low achievers had lower sense of achievement. Students with higher motivation were achieve greater success in their language learning, while those lacking in motivation made no attempts in the process of language learning and often fail the exam. Fourth, Nuri on The Effects of Age and Motivation Factors on Second Language Acquisition, the writer said the competency of a learner in his or her first language had a direct relationship with his or her age. Schooling and cognitive development were the other factors affecting the second language acquisition. Motivation was another factor affecting second language acquisition. Achieving motivation let the learner desire to learn a language. The writer, in the field of applied linguistics called for an expansion of the motivational construction in second language learning. The research expressed that motivation was a key factor in the second language learning process. They stressed that a less able student who was highly motivated achieved greater success than the more intelligent student who was not well motivated. Sometimes students came highly motivated and the task of the teacher was to maintain motivation of the students. The task of the teacher was to maximize the motivation. In the last previous research, Yue of A Study of English Learning Motivation of Less Successful Students, the author intended to explore the types of motivation and the correlation between the types of motivation and their performance. The subjects were 207 unsuccessful students through a questionnaire and 20 of them

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