MOTIVATION OF UNIVERSITY-STUDENTS IN THEI R STUDY OF ENGLISH

The purposes of this study were to make a scale to measure motivation of university students in their study of English and to examine the re liability and the validity of this scale. Twenty-two items were used i n this study, which were theoretically classified into six orientation s;fulfilment, training, practice, relation, self-esteem and reward (Ic hikawa, 1995a). The results of factor-analysis showed that those items were composed of two factors; fulfilment-training and self-esteem-rew ard orientations, Cronbach's alpha coefficients of this scale were suf ficiently high, and the test-retest reliability coefficients were appr opriate compared with those of other scales of the same kind. The scor es on this scale were moderately correlated with the amount of time sp ent in studying English, the scores on the Concepts of Learning Scale (Horino et al., 1990), the scores on the Achievement Motivation Scale (Horino & Mori, 1991), and the scores on the Self-consciousness Scale( Sugawara, 1984).