关键词:
Autonomy
Competence
Relatedness
Attribution
Motivation
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摘要:
Though a good number of studies explored learners' basic psychological needs and attribution beliefs in learning English, there is a dearth of studies on their impacts on learners' motivation in learning a language. Therefore, this paper aims to examine the relation between basic psychological needs, achievement attribution and their influence on the motivation of English as a foreign language learners. Under quantitative research design, data from 110 EFL learners from Dhaka, Bangladesh, was collected via questionnaire. The data was analysed using IBM SPSS for a correlation study and IBM SPSS AMOS for conducting path and mediation analyses. The results revealed significant positive correlation of autonomous and controlled motivation with all the basic psychological needs factors and attribution except for the need for competence and context attribution. In addition, the path model showed that learners with high autonomy satisfaction had higher effort attribution. Also, the need for competence significantly influenced learners' ability attribution which, in turn, significantly affected learners' autonomous and controlled motivation. Furthermore, ability and context attribution mediated the relation between needs satisfaction and learner motivation. Apart from adding new findings to the existing achievement motivation literature, some probable pedagogical implications for EFL contexts are also discussed in the paper. (sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic),(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic).(sic)(sic),(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic).(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic),(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)(sic)