A case study on the learning motivation of a 20-year-old Chinese college student

Although several empirical studies conducted by Gao (2004) and her research team have focused on the motivation of college students to learn English [7], there is a lack of studies regarding the motivation of junior college students in learning English. The research has primarily concentrated on undergraduate and graduate students. This study focuses on the qualitative study of the learning motivation of English majors in a private university from the social and psychological dimensions of language learning and analyzes the learning motivation types of a certain one of the private college English major students by using 7 kinds of motivation types. Through the above correlation analysis, it can be concluded that the English learning motivations of the research object (Lisa) are instrumental motivation, cultural motivation, and situational motivation, which coexist.