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Article Title
Motivation and Strategies to Learn English:
The Case of Pre-service Teachers of Chinese

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Dr. Ruth Ming Har Wong
The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong

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Ruth Ming Har Wong is a senior teaching fellow in the Department of English at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. She obtained her doctorate at the University of Durham, UK. She has published papers in second language learning motivation and cultural studies. Her research interests include second language teaching and learning, cultural studies, language arts, and learning motivation.

Abstract
This paper reports a study of motivation and strategies toward learning English used by pre-service teachers of Chinese. The aims of the study were to investigate whether pre-service teachers of Chinese are unmotivated to learn English if they are not going to use English substantially in the future and to examine the learning strategies the participants adopt during English lessons. Gardner’s (1985) Attitude/Motivation Test Battery was modified and administered to elicit pre-service Chinese language teachers’ motivational orientation to learn English, their preferences and needs to learn English, as well as their learning strategies in learning English. Findings from this study pose significant implications to current educational reform in China and may help educators to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate the learning of a second language by non-English major teachers.

Key words: motivation, learning strategies, pre-service teachers of Chinese

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