VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI USIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDEES: FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES + tr tk ti tt King tr HOANG THI HOA THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI
USIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDEES:
FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES
+ tr tk ti tt King tr
HOANG THI HOA
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE LEARNING MOTIVATION AND LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGY USE OF VIETNAMESE EMPLOYEES
AT HONDA COMPANY, VIEFNAM
MOI QUAN HE Gi
CHIEN THUAT HOC NGON NGU CCA NHÂN VIÊN NGƯỜI LIỆT
ỨA ĐỘNG LỰC HỌC NGÔN NGỮ HÀ VIỆC SỬ DỰNG
CÔNG TY HONDA, VIET NAM
MLA,
(OR PROGRAMME TIIESIS
Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60140111
TIANOI - 2016
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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI
USIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDEES:
FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES
Xi th R4 hư k tr ti
HOANG THI HOA
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE LEARNING MOTIVATION AND LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGY USE OF VIETNAMESE EMPLOYEES
AT HONDA COMPANY, VIEFNAM
MOI QUAN HE GIỮA ĐỘNG LỰC HỌC NGÔN NGỮ HÀ VIỆC SỬ DỤNG
CHIẾN THUẬT TỌC NGÔN NGỮ CŨA NIIÂN LIÊN NGƯỜI UIỆT
CONG TY HONDA, VIET NAM
MLA MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS
Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60140111
Supervisor: Té Thi Thu Hương, PhD
HANOL - 2016
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Thereby declare that my thesis submitted for the Faculty of Post-Graduate Studies, University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University, apart from the help recognized, is my own work Also, this paper has
not been submitted to any other formal course of study
Hanoi, 2016
Hoang ‘Thi Hoa
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I would like to send my thank you to many individuals for their invaluable
help duriny the conduct of the research
First and foremost, I would like to express my profound gratitude to my
supervisor, Dr ‘lo ‘hi ‘thu Lluong, who gave me enthusiastic instructions, precious
support and crilical feedback on the construction of the study This has always been
one of decisive factors in the completion of this thesis
Second, I also wish to thank all the doctors and lecturers of the Faculty of
Postgraduate Studies, University of Forcign Languages and International Studics, Vietnam National University, ianoi for their valuable lectures, which are partly applied in this study
Next, T would hike 1a send my deep sense of thanks to Vietnamese employees
at Llonda Co., Vietnam for their cooperation and the valuable information they
provided in my research field
Furthermore, T would like to give my hoarLlch thanks to iny family and friends, especially my boyfriend, Thanh Nguyen, and my best friend, Sao Bui, who
have always been helpfull to me throughont the research
Last but nol least, I thank almighty the graders and readers [or [heir interests,
evaluation and feedback on this thesis.
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This research aims to investigate the correlation between language learning motivation and language leaming strategy use by Vietnamese employees at Honda
company,
To seck answers for the issue, a questionnaire was conducted to collect the
answers from 120 Vietnamese employees at Honda company The first section of the questionnaire was about how often the students used instructed strategios in learning English and found out whether these students use any other strategies than
instructed ones, and the second section was created to collect information about the
participant's’ molivalion level The data were then analyzed and presented in (he forms of frequency, percentage and charts and tables ‘Ihe results indicated that all the instructed strategies were used by the majority of the respondents and the participants also applicd some other strategies that could be considered belonging to memory and social groups in their inglish learning, and among the four types of
motivation, their reported instrumental motivation was of the highest level
Tmportantly, the study found a significant, posilive, and moderale correlation between
motivation and language leaming strategy use Moreover, different types of
motivation are shown to have different correlations with strategy use Finally, the
significant, contributions of integrative and intrinsic motivation to strategy use were
revealed, which went beyond the correlational analysis for the relationship as often
observed in other studies
1H
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2.2.1 Dcñinifions of motivation no nnnneeseerarrrnirsrseroae L3 2.2.2 Types of motivation in language leamning co eoeesoeooee LỆ 2.3 Langnage learning strategies and motivation in language learning 7 3.3.1, Data collection instrumentt esunscuusensunnetnnieneennneenannineee 22
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LLSs: language learning strategies
MA: Master of Arts
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igure 1: Frequency of using mnemory srat©p4€§ neo re 29 Figure 2: Frequency of using cognitive strategies ar
Figure 3: Frequency of using compensation strategies 33
Figure 4: Requency of using metacognitive siratepjes -35
Figure 5: Frequency of using affective strategies 37
Figure 7: fhe percentage of regular use of the most and the least popular strategies
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Figure 8: The students’ integrative motivation csesssssessneeesiusessesseeniene 42
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1.1 The statement of problem and rationale for the study
That well-paid altention lo the socond language leamers and {heir learning
instead of teachers and teaching methods in the recent decades by researches has
been an indispensable and meaningful educational renovation that provides more
comprehensive perception ou second Tanguage education for both teachers and
learners ‘Ihe stadies of second language leaming and their effectiveness that started
to be focused prominently since the second half of the twentieth century (Bilis,
2003) This is well-known when various researches have been launched and they
concentrated on how leamers deal with their own learning and what makes good
language leamers The prominent contributions to this field can be known as the
studies by Stern im 1975, Oxford m 1990, and Griffiths in 2003 These researchers
made it clearer that a lot of responsibility for the second language leaming’s
effectiveness and success is on sludenis themselves wilh their ability lo take
advantage of opportunities for learning
Moreover, the strategies and techniques that language learners exploit to
acquire the language and solve challenges in their language leaming have been a thriving area of research, especially in L2.Since Rubin and Stem (1970) revealed in their works that the use of language leaming strategies (LLSs) was beneficial for
second language leaning Bialystok (1978, p 71) also agreed that leaning strategies
were the “optimal means for exploiting available information to improve competence
in a second language” Later, in 1990, in her work, Oxford found that students can
self-stdy effectively if using LI.Ss In addition, the use of language learning
strategics leads to better proficicncy or achicvement in mastering the target
language (Lee, 2003; O"Malley and Chamot, 1990; Rahimi et at, 2008; Griffiths,
2003; Hong, 2006; Oxford, 1993)
Besides, the variables affecting language learning strategy use were also taken into consideration by several scholars Those factors might consist of degree of
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context, language teaching method and language proficiency (Aare & Nooreen, 2011;
Khamkhicn, 2010, Rahini, ct al 2008; Chomot, 2004; Grilliths, 2003, Hong-Nam and Leavell, 2007, Green and Oxford, 1995; Ehrman and Oxford, 1989), Concerning
this field, Taguchi (2002) found that “the most influential factors were gender,
English proficiency and motivation” among a mumber of learner and social factors in
beth Japan aud Australia contexts In another work by Khamkhien (2010) which
studied three factors affecting students’ choice of LLS, motivation is the most significant (followed by experience in studying English and gender), Tn additions, the number of studies on the relationship between motivation and LLS use was modest What is more, the approaches to motivation were not consistent and
comprehensive in (hese studies despile the development of rescarch on motivation
field Most of the previous studies emphasized on the relationship between
motivation level and LLS use without paying attention to motivation types In addition, one can notice thal alilough the correlation between motivation and the usc
of LLSs were discussed to some extent (Al-Qalitani, 2013; Khamkhien, 2010; Lau & Chan, 2003, Tu et ab 2014; Mochizuki, 1999: Oxford & Nyikos, 1989), little was
known about the predictive power of motivation in explaining LLS use of EFL
learners
At Honda company context, there has never had any researches of language
learning carried cut Moreover, since 2015, Honda Motor Co announced widely that
they are to make English the official language by around 2020, which means if any
employees who cannot use English will be fired Simultaneously, all Honda staff
imembers will be helped to take part in free Hnglish classes at the company in order to enhance their English skills These mean the learning and teaching context of the
company staff members have undergone some changes Dus to the above reasons,
this paper would take a deeper look at the relationslup between motivation and the
use of LLSs, and the researcher decided ta work with the case of Vietnamese
cmployecs al Honda company in Vinh Phas, Vietnam, who ara having ext classes
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Tn additions, im the context of Honda, the researcher did nol choose 1o
investigate the relationship between gender and LLSs because the majority of Vietnamese employees at Ilonda are male, so it may meet difficulties in collecting
respondents in proportion Besides, almost all Vietnamese staffs at Honda graduated
from universities of technical fields, or economic, and law, etc As a result, thew
proficiency of Enghsh is quite the same at elementary, pre-intermediate and
intermediate levels, which may give wrvalued results if invesligaling the correlation
between Linglish proficiency and the use of LLSs ‘I'hus, this study was conducted with an aim at expanding the understandings about the relationship between motivation and L1.Ss use, especially on the role of molivation types in explaining and
predicting the L2 leamers’ LLS use
In short, being aware of the rather new teaching and leaming situation, the
gap m rescarch and the possibility of Vietramese employces' increasing motivation
at Honda to learning English, the researcher designed this study to investigate the
relationship between the use of language learning strategy and their motivation for learning English of Vietnamese employees at Honda company, Vietnam
1.2 Significance of the study
Asa study on the relationship between LLS use and motivation for learning English of Vietnamese employees at Honda Vietnam for leaming English, this work would be of benefit for the target population, their [English teacher and other
researchers interested in the field
In the first place, this study is conducted with a hope to provide Vietnamese employees at Ilonda Vietnam, to same extent, with knowledge of LLSs and
encourage them to use these LS im appropriate ways to enbance their language
Icarning offcet In additions, the research results would allow participants to know more their current use of LLS, their motivation in their learning English at present
and importantly, the correlation belween these two clements is expected to be
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adjusl their alliludes Lo their sludy aclively and positively, so thal their learning is
more interesting and effective
As for their English teachers, they could base on the results of this work to
further understand their students’ use of LLS and their motivation After that,
teachers can encouage and guide students to use LLS more effectively Furthermore, they can even change the way of teaching or giving tasks, so that it is
more compatible and constructive for their sludents’ motivation The adjustments in
course content or orientation could also be made for betterment
Last but not least, regarding the researchers who are interested in the same or
related field, the researcher hope this paper could work as a reliable source of
reference and a basis for them to develop their works from
1.3 Objectives of the study and research questions
This sindy was conducted with an aim of exploring the relationship between
motivation and instructed LLSs use by Vietnamese employees at Honda co,
Vietnam, especially the rofe af motivation types in explaining and predicting the T2 leamers’ LLS usc To fulfil this aim, firstly, this study focuscd on identifying the
extent of the use of trained LLSs of Vietnamese employees at Llonda Vietnam in learning English Secondly, motivation types of respondents towards learning English were investigated After that, this paper explored the relationship between respondents’ use of LLS and their motivation for English learning,
In a nut shell, the study reported in this the thesis aims at answering three
questions below:
1 What is the range of instructed language leaming strategies used by
Vietnamese employees al Honda Vietnam?
2 What are Victnamese cmployces’ dominant types of motivation for
English language learning?
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1.4, Method of the study
The methods employed in this study to find out the answers to the proposed research questions are both qualitative and quantitative analyses
Quantitative analysis used in the process of data collection and analysis,
which was conducted at Honda Company, Vietnam he instrument was a questionnaire that includes fifty-statements of LLSs developed from the fifty-
statement stralegy inventory version 7.0 by Oxford (1989) and an adapted list of
nineteen items related to motivation types Following the phase of data collection is data analysis to give the results for each research question and the topic of the
study
Besides, with an aim at providing an understanding of the field for readers
and a philosophy for the study the researcher carried out to review, compare and
evaluate a large amount of lilerature on LLSs and motivation by experls worldwide
‘These materials were then applied to construct the instrument and compare the
findings wilh the results of previous studies
Hopetully, this study could release meaningful and beneficial findings on the
relationship between leamers’ use of language leaming strategies and their motivation, so that certain contribution to Vietnamese employees’ English learning
at Honda Vietnam could be made
1.5 Organization of the study
The study consists of $ chapters
Chapter 1: Introduction of the research
Chapter 2: Literature review (Other researches on this topic are discussed)
Chapler 3: Methadology (the way the researcher collected the data as well as
analysis them is showed)
Chapter 4: Findings and discussion (features in leamers’ use)
Chapler $: Conclusion
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2.1 Language Icarning strategies
2.1.1 Definitions and characteristics of language learning strategies
To be considered as one of the most vital elements contributmg to leamers”
success in language acquisition, language leaming strategies defined and
characterized by a variety of scholars in the related field Early on, according to
Tarone (1983), LLS as “an attempt to develop linguistic and sociolinguistic competence in the target language — to incorporate these into one’s inter-language
competence” (p.67}Rubin (1987) later wrote thal, LS “are strategies which
contribute to the development of the language system which the leamers construct and affect learning directly” (p.22) The learning strategies also have been defined
by O’Malley and Chamot (1990:1) as “special ways of processing information thai
enhance comprehension, learning, or retention of information” In lne with
them, Scarcella & Oxford (1992) mentioned LLS as “specific actions, behaviors,
steps, or lochniques — such as secking oul conversation partners, or giving onesell
encouragement to tackle a difficult language task- used by students to enhance their
own learning”, Obviously, a change of whal is emphasized in these definitions can
be clearly seen that it shifts from finding out what they leam to how and why
learners leam (Wenden 1991:11) Also, it is vital to note that although there is a
notorious relationship between leaner’s language learning style and his or her preferred LLS, LLS are distinct from leaning styles, which refer to leamer’s
“patural, habitual, and preferred ways of absorbing, processing, and retaining new
information and skills" (Reid, 1995 p.viii) Ellis (1994, p 532-533) affirmed that
“[s}trategies refer to both general approaches and specific actions or techniques
used to learn an L2", and strategy use can be behavioral or mental, visible or
invisible This definition was cousislent with the ideas af many other scholars in the
field, especially those of O'Malley and Chamot (1990) and Oxford (1989, 2001)
Concerning whether strategy use necessitates consciousness or not, Ellis (1994),
Oxford (2001), and Grabe (2009) agreed thal learners make use of learning atralegics:
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indirectly on learning proves, exerting positive influence on students’ Lask solving,
language skill development, language proficiency, communicative competence, leaming autonomy, self-confidence, and aiming at making the process of leaming
easier and more feasible (Al-Qahtani, 2013; Dreyer & Oxford, 1996, “Author 2”, 2005; Ellis, 1994, Matsumoto, Hiromori, & Nakayama, 2013; Moya, 2014, Nisbet, Tindal, & Arroyo, 2005; O’Malley & Chamot, 1990, Oxford, 1990; Oxford, 2001;
Oxford & Scarcella, 1992),
Regarding the LLS literature, this study now mentions a number of basic characteristics of language leaming strategies that published in 2005 by Jacet (cited
in Kitakawa, 2008, p.151) First of all, 11.5 help learners 10 study language casier
and contribute language acquisition (competence and performance}, Secondly, LLS
are “what leamers can use consciously according to need and then allow them to
become more tesponsible and self-directed Some TL1.S are behavioral (and,
therefore, observable) while other are mental (and, therefore, not observable) Also,
some T.LS contribule directly while other contributes tudirectly on iner-language development The fitth is LLS are not distinguished by being good or not and just
have effectual way and non-effectual way LLS allow students to properly use the strategies with appropriate guidance Finally, LLS use varies as a result of leamer’s internal factors (sex, age, belief, aptitude, purpose, leaming stage, cultural background, intelligence) and extemal factors (target language, task, environment,
ete)”
2.1.2 Classification of learning strategies
Through the years, a number of researchers released the systems of language
learning strategies in their own way TLS are defined and o
from cach other Therefore, this ficld of LLS is controversial (Oxford, 1990) The
ified in different way
researchers on this field have not been shared the same view As a result, the
quantlily and classification of LLS are “inevitable” (Oxford, 1990).
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learner” Naiman ct al (1976) agreed with researchers varlier on the sigroficance of
learners’ strategies to their learning process A new point is they identify “good” and “poor” language leamers and they found out that “poor” language learners
appeared to use a smaller number and range of strategies than “good” leamers It
was believed that good language leamers are “willing and accurate guessers; have
a strong drive ta communicate; are often uninhibited: are willing to make mistakes;
focus on form hy looking for patterns and analysing; take advantage of all practice
opportunities; monitor their speech as well as that of others; and pay attention to meaning”, and the students’ process was under direct or indirect influence of LSs
(Rubin, 1975) The female expert carne lo Her latest classification un 1987 with three
main groups of strategies that make a direct or indirect contribution to students’
language learning: ‘learning strategies’ (with ‘metacognitive strategies’ and
‘cognitive strategies’ as subclasses), ‘communication strategies’, and ‘social
strategies’ Among strategies included in the system, only cognitive ones directly
affect learning, while the rest indirectly However, Bilis (1986) argued that successfid uae of communication strategies may prevent language Icaruing, for example, being
excel at guessing meaning may prevent the desire for learning
Another prominent way of categorising LLS belonged ta C’Malley and Chamot (1990) with three main types, namely cognitive (applying a particular technique to a specific task, for example repeating, summarizing, note-taking,
reasoning and analyzing), meta-cognitive (related to the leaming process, for
example organizing, evaluating, planning and monitoring) and socie- affective (involving oneself and others, for example co-operating with peers and seeking
clarification) O’Malley and Chamot (1990) emphasized the cognitive strategy is the
best one “repetition as the most frequently used strategy” and gave those classed as meta-cognitive a special consideration, maintaining that “students without meta-
cognilive approaches are essentially learners without direction or opportunity to
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stralogics correspond rougtily with Rubin’s However, there was an addition of the
social ones, which essentially acknowledged the importance of interactional strategies in language leaning (Griffiths, 2004)
Basing on the predecessors’ works, Oxford tried to develop a taxonomy that
discussed before in other researches in more detail, which was considered "the most
comprehensive classification of leaming strategies to date” (Lillis, 1994) She
divided these strategies into two main classes, direct and indivect, which are further
subdivided into six categories (cognitive strategy that allows learners to understand and produce the target language in different means, memory strategy that helps
leammers fo slore and retrieve new miormation falter, and compensation thal
provides learners the means to communicate although their knowledge is limited
(Oxford, 1990} under the direct class: meta-cognitive, affective, and social under
the indirecl class).Metu-cognitive siraiegies allow siudenls 10 control thew
cognition and their own leaming, affective strategies relates to regulate leamers”
emotion, motivation, and behaviors, and social strategies thal permit learners study
through interaction with others
Following is the table contains detail information of specific strategies of each
group
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Major groups of Primary strategies Secondary strategies
strategies
T Memory A Creating mental Tinkages
B Applying imayes and
(help leamers to store new language nese! infomation and S48 C Reviewing well retrieve this later) D Employing action :
qu (entail conscious ways of C Analyzing and
processing of the
la mguage ) handling the targel lmguage} reasoning
input and output
TIL Compensation ‘A Guessing intelligently (enable learners to B Overcoming
communicate despite limitations in speaking and knowledge limits) writing
1 Metacognitive B Anenging miplomning
their cognition their own TA ting jeaming INDIRECT — lemmnig)
STRATEGE8 ———————————————————— TI Affective ‘A Lowering anxiety
(support incirectly Herren gp @ontrol and regulate B Brcowaging onesell
" emotion, raotivation,and — C Taking emetional
leaming)
Gmprove social ierachon — B Cooperating with others
with other people) C Empathizing with others
It is observable that Oxford's (1990) system was more specific than previous
ones in terms of primary slratagics and more general in lerms off secondary ones
Especially, a difference from earlier inventories is that Oxford emphasis on affective
and social strategies This seems to match with her assertion when mentioning to six
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Although there are differences of approac
s and emphases, the stralogios (hal are
discussed and classified by researchers are similar to some extent Particularly, three types of cognitive, memory and compensation given by Oxford correspond to that
by O’Malley’s cognitive group These strategies are mental and physical actions
affecting ther learning input directly Also, O’Malley and Oxford have the same kind of meta-cognitive strategies as mentioned earlier Finally, social-affective
stralegies by O°Malley seem to almost cover two groups of affeclive and social
strategies of Oxford ‘I'he advantage of Oxford's classification in comparison with others is that the list could cover all other particular actions or activities in language
learning, therefore, the system has hecu considered a very comprehensive, dotaled
and systematic taxonomy of strategies (Brown, 2007, Hllis, 1994), More importantly,
based on this taxonomy, Oxford (1989) created the Strategy Inventory of Language Learmng (SILL), which is a questionnaire on how sludenis use the LLSs in their
language leaming ‘he version for speakers of other languages learning Hnglish of
the SILT (Oxford, 1989) has been widely employed by researchers in the field, and iL served as the instrument of this study as well
Concerning previous studies, several have investigated the frequency of using, LLS by L2 leamers, but the findings were different across studies For example, metacognitive and cognitive strategies were revealed to be the most frequently used
in AlTlebaishi (2012), Al-Qahtani (2013), and Chand (2014) In the meantime,
Hayati (2015) found the students made use of metacognitive and memory strategies
the most Differently, in Mochizuki (1999), Oxford and Ehrman (1995),
compensation group was used the most often by L2 students [owever, the
inconclusive findings were understandable because the participant samples had
different charactoristics (different study levels, difforent leaming settings, to name but
a few), and it has been acknowledged that learning strategies were likely to be alfected by many factors, which would be discussed later in this paper
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teaching
Obviously, the defimlions and classificalions mentioned above revealed
some roles of LLS, LLS facilitate positively the language learning process as they are used to “enhance comprehension, Jeaming, or retention of information” (O'Malley and Chamot (1990:1) Sharing the same view, Oxford (2001) claims the role of LLS that is to “aid acquisition”, “make learning easier, faster, more
enjoyable, more self-directed, more effective and more transferable to new
Considering communicative approaches, Oxfard (1990) claimed the role af
LS help “cammummeative competence” to be improved, L1.S as “tools for active,
self-directed involvement which is essential for developing communicative
competence” (1990, p.1)
LLS also plays a significant role on culaancing language slall (Fedderholddt,
1997), Lach type of strategies helps to improve certain skills such as monitoring and regulating their own learning (meta-cognitive), leaming and exploiting materials (cognitive) and asking other speakers to correct mistakes (social/ effective) Obviously, these skills are of necessary to the growth of leamers’ independence and
autonomy (Fedderholdt, 1997) and thanks to them, students also have able to
become better language learners (Lessard-Clouston,1997)
In addition, the suitable use of LLS could lead to students’ “greater self- confidence” in cÏassroorn
Scarcella, 1992, p.63)
Moreaver, LLS are considered as valuable clues that provide language
elf-study and real-life communication (Oxford &
teachors a general picture of how their students bandle, evaluate the silunilion, plan,
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studenis in order thal they can learn more effectively
Generally, LLS become a significant part in students’ language proficiency, skills, achievement, communicative competence, learning autonomy and
confidence Besides, these strategies alsa help language teaching to be more
effective Indeed, LLS have overwhelming power to language leaming and
teaching
2.2 Motivation in language learning
2.2.1, Definitions of motivation
Unlike the exploration of LLS, motivation is put into research with a atable
base right irom the slart thanks to careful and thorough sludies ef in{uential authors
such as Gardner and his colleagues such as Lambert Nevertheless, the
controversy of conceptualizing motivation can be stil] not evaded
Reing one of the pioncering researchers in {his field, Gardner (1985) proposed
neatly three constituents of motivation namely ‘effort’, ‘desire’, and ‘attitudes’ to
learning activity By ‘effort’, the scholar meant Gime for language learmng and the chive of the Ivarner, Next, by ‘desire’, the students’ degree of the want to improve
their language proficiency was referred to Iinally, ‘attifudes’ showed the leamers” emotional behaviors or reactions in their process of learning Meanwhile, Brown- the behaviorist (2000) later claims that motivation simply is “the anticipation of reward”; it concerns mainly leamers’ effort and decisions According to Abit (2013), Deci and Ryan (1985), Domyei and Skehan (2003), Gardner and Lambert (1972),
Gardner and Masgoret (2003), Hashemian and Soureshijani (2011), Khodadady and
Khajavy (2013), Wigfield (2000), and Yu (2013), motivation plays a prominent role
in 1.2 leaning and achievernent, more specifically, the motivated sludents could
recognize their goals, exert more effort to handle the tasks, have more aspiration and
less anxiety, enjoy learning activities, draw lessons fom success and failure, exploit
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Considoring the definition of motivation, Harmer (1991,p.3) proposes iL is
regarded as “intemal drive” that forces learners to do something Sharing the same perspective, Brown (2000, p.160) also claims the “intemal drive” pushing people to
do to gain Similarly, Atkinson (cited in Amorid, 2000, p.13) considered motivation
“a cluster of factors that “energize” the behaviors and give it “direction””
Later on, in 2003, Domyei-a famous figure in the field, defined motivation
as a process of “the dynamically changing cumulative arousal in a person” thal
concerns the reasons that promote someone’s action, how long they will keep that action, and how they are willing to make effort in order to pursue it, Domyei’s
concept of motivation also matches with his construct of three phases of motivation,
that are choice motivation (pre-actioual stage), executive motivation (actional stage) and motivational retrospection (post-actional stage where learners analyze actional phasc) (2003) Domyei’s mindset have some similarities to Wlodwoskis alhough
the latter’s view dated back to 1985
Tn tus research, m 1994, Allis also confirmed that motivation tas a significant
intlucnes on the degree to which language leamers last thou leamung, the types of
behavior they apply, and their actual achievement ‘This was reemphasized with his
idea in 2003: “motivation involves the aititudes and affective states that influence
the degree of effort that learners make to leam an L2” (p.75)
In general, although there is a variety of different definition of motivation,
the authors’ conceptualization mentioned earlier shared the same view, that
motivation makes learners’ spirit stronger and direct their action and carry out their goal in leaming language
2.2.2 Types of mativation in language learning
Defining motivation types also garnered a lot of attention Gardner (1983), Gardner and Lambert (1972) posited that there were two types of motivation in language learning: integralive versus instrumental motivation The formor refers to
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1983) or their desires and willingness to explore more about the culture of the region
using the largel language, to conmerl more with the community and people speaking
that target language or to be a member of that society (Gardner and Lambert, 1972, Saville-Troike, 2006), Similarly, Wilkins (1972) suggested that an integratively
motivated language learner wants to “know more of the culture and values of the
foreign language group to make contact with the speakers of the languages to live in the country concemed” (p 184) A typical illustration is the act of leaming
French of many Bnglish speaking Canadians (Fltis, 2003) In contrast, the latter is
derived purely from practical reasons or non-interpersonal purposes such as admission requirements, business opportunity or job promotion (Gardner & Lambert,
1972, Saville-Trike, 2006).For example, when a Icaner study to “pasa an
examination to use it in one’s job, to use it in holiday in the country, as a change
from watching television, because the educational system requires it”, (s)he is
imstumentally motivaled (Wilkins, 1972, p.184)
While both motivation types were theorized to be essential elements of
success, Csizer and TDomyei (2005), Yu (2013) found integrative motivation the more
powerful contributor to success in L2 leaming, Nouctheless, Damye: (1990), Gupta
and Woldemariam (2011), Lukmani (1972), Rehman et al (2014), Warden and Lin
(2000), Yu (2014) showed that in EFL contexts where leamers have few opportunities to using the foreign language or interact with foreigners, instrumental motivation was more important and students were motivated more strongly by
instrumental reasons than integrative one Thus, it is understandable when a learner
with an instrumental reason such as a need to get promotion, read document of related-field in target language or necessary qualifications is more interested in
learning English im some contexts ike Viera
Other researchers, later on, raised another well-known categorization which
differentiated between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation Specifically, according to Scl-Delermination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985), learning molivation’s typos arc
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are intrinsic and extrinsic motivation Whilst intrinsic motivation means “doing somelbing because i is inherenily imleresting or enjoyable’, extrinsic motivalion
refers to “doing something because it leads to a separable outcome” such as having good grades, or receiving compliments from others (Deci & Ryan, 1985, p 95)
Sharing the same view to Deci & Ryan, Harmer (1994) defines intrinsic
motivation in related to elements appeared within a class, while extrinsic motivation
includes affected factors exterior of class such as a need to pass the examinations,
hope lo get reward, or able to gel a vacalion im the future In addition, imyrinsic
motivation refers to learners’ attitude, belief, needs and personal elements In this
case, the students will still leam willingly and voluntarily what they consider as
worth and essential (Arnold, 2000) On the contrary, extrinsic raotivation derives
from each individual and invelved im external forces or cutcome such as grade or
teacher that help to shape leamer’s behaviors and push the learner to engage in
learning aelivily In general, intrinsic and extrinsic molivation are nol mutually
exclusive, but mutualize each other, In reality, almost people study English because
of both types of motivation As for Harmer (1991, p.4), he saw both integrative and
instrumental motivations as extrinsic motivation
In Deci and Ryan’s opinion (1985), being extrinsically motivated could do some harm to leaming That is, when the rewards or even the punishment disappear, there is a high chance of losing motivation in sbidents, However, some researchers
indicated that extrinsic motivation is effective for those with little motivation Concerning intrinsic type, Lightbown and Spada (1999) agreed that it brings no
hammful effects because the needs derive from inside This motivation type was also considered the underlying factor in L2 leaming success (Daleghizadeh & Rahimi,
2011; Grabe, 2009; Guthrie & Wigfield, 2000; Lin ef al, 2014)
Another type was discussed by Ellis (2003, p 75): ‘resultative motivation’
All above sorts of motivation have been identified based on the assumption that
molivation slimulates language learning and contributes (o achievernent, however, in
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reasoned that success and sense of achievement in language learning could sustain
existing level of motivation or may cause more or, in sume context, even less
inotivation
Besides, Bllis (2003) seems to imply that integrative, instrumental and
resultative categories all belong to exwinsic motivation because in Ellis’s
classification there are four types: integrative, instrumental, resultative, and intrinsic categories In this research, Ellis’s system of motivation was applied due to the fact
thal il covered all main types of motivation discovered previously
2.3 Language learning strategies and motivation in language learning
The factors affecting L2 leamers’ stratesy use have been investigated by a
varioly of inercasing researchers AMhough discussed in just a fow slusties, the strong
relationship between L2 leaming strategy use and motivation was recorded In a
research of foreign language learners in Midwestem America, Oxford and Nyikos
(1989) stated Ural among many factors, molivalion was the most mfluential and “the
degree of expressed motivation was the single most powerful influence on the
choice of language learning strategies” More particularly, the level of motivation has a positive coelation with the number and the frequency of strategies students
apply The superiority of motivation over study experience, gender, study major, English proficiency, enjoyment, etc., in correlating with and affecting LLS choice
and use was supported in Khamkhien (2010), Lau and Chan (2003), and Mochizuki
(1999), Besides, significant correlation bebveen LLS use and motivation was also reported in Al-Qahtani (2013), Baleghizadeh and Rahimi (2011), Gupta and
Woldemariam (2011), Lin et al (2014), Matsumoto, Hiromori, and Nakayama
(2013), and Xu (2011)
Moreover, this relationship between TLS use and motivation was found to be
mediated by different strafegics and motivation types Schmidt and Watanabe’s (2001) results showed that cognitive and metacognitive were correlated most strongly
wilh motivation Tn Oxford and Nytkos (1989), i was reporled that the students”
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opposite was found in hrman (1990) In the meantime, Al-Qahtani (2013) suggested
that both itlegralive and instbumcntal strategies significantly correlated with LS use,
but the former possessed the higher correlation For intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, Vandergrift (2005), Baleghizadeh and Rahimi (2011) showed that both were
significantly correlated with strategies
‘The above listed studies had some undeniable strengths For example, Oxford
and Nyikos (1989), Schmidt and Watanahe's (2001) recruited a huge number of
participants (1200 and 2089 respectively), and in Oxford and Nyikes (1989) there
was a large amount of evidence for the SLLL’s reliability and validity Llowever, there existed some gaps and limitations In Gupta and Woldemariam (2011), Lau and Chan
(2003), Malsumolo, Hiromoni, and Nakayama (2013), Vandergrifl (2005), the focal
attention of their research was the strategies for only one in four English stalls
(writing, strategies, reading strategies, and listening strategies) which cannot cover all the range of LLSs Similarly, Baleghiadch and Rahnm’s (2011) research was
confined to only metacognitive strategies For some other studies, the measurement
of motivation was not so well-developed In Khatnkhien (2010), Mochizuki (1999),
Oxford and Nyikos (1989), the number of items pertaming to motivation was
relatively small (thirteen, one, and six respectively) What 1s more, Khamkhien (2010), Oxford and Nyikos (1989) only employed the two-point scale questions in the motivation questionnaires (strongly agree/moderately agree and yes/no respectively), which might not reflect exactly the students’ opinion and their level of motivation In
addition, many of the studies investigating LLS use and motivation relationship only
scrutinized one or two types of motivation or did not clarify the motivation types
investigated Several did not report the results for each motivation types as well
(Damyei &
Skchan, 2003) and often changes as a function of study results, social and classroom setting, beliefs, and feelings (Grabe, 2009, Mazumder, 2014, Waninge, Bot, &
Dérmnyci, 2014, Xu & Casc, 2015) Aside from this, different motivation types could,
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of previous investigations are not always applicable to a certain place of another
contsxL On lop of that, te majority of previous studies in the ficld merely conducted
correlation analysis while the causality in the LLS use and motivation relationship is worth investigating Conspicuously, further researches are necessary, especially in L2
context where the shortage of research exactly addressing the relationship between
LLS use and motivation types into consideration exists
To sum up, it would appear that there exists a relationship between motivation
and which LLSs the leamers use and how often these strategies were ulilived
Nevertheless, the effects of different strategy groups and motivation types on the relationship have not been clarified well enough in the past Thus, along with the
room for improvement mn provious tescarch, became the rationale behind the presen study
Summary: In this chapter, two main aspects of the research that are LLS and
molivalion mentioned by providing some scholars’ viewpoints In other wards, their
concepts, classification are listed, analyzed, compaied with each other Finally, the
telalionship between how learners’ use of L1.S and their motivation are handled as
the last part These contents are pointed out with an aum as a base to build up the
questions in the questionnaire and the determination of the research design, both of
which are presented in the following chapter
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This study examines 3 research questions
1 What is the range of instructed language learning strategics used by Victnamesc employees at Honda Company?
2 What are Vietnamese employees’ dominant types of motivation for English language learning?
3 In what way does Vietnamese employees’ we of instructed language leaning strategies correlate with their types of motivation for leaning English?
3.2 Participants
150 in a total of 1500 Viemamese employees at Honda co in Vinh Phuc, Vietnam were selected on the basis of their voluntary participation to be the sample
for this study and helped Lo find answers to lnree above questions
Participants were chosen from all three Inglish classes at Ilonda Co There are two semesters for leaming English at Honda Co every year Rasing on the results of their placement test at the beginning of each semester, employees were distributed into suitable English classes at three levels: lementary intermediate
and advarwed Nevertheles
as much effective as possible with an aim at satisfying conditions as the company’s
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them in curnculum That is, in addition to traning students [our English skills based
on knowledge arranged in course book, students were learned about language learning strategies to develop their vocabulary, grammar, and their ability of
communication There were some typical examples that teachers usually made use
of to teach language leaming strategies as followed: Firstly, for improving the
participants’ new words, students were required to make some sentences used that
word Besides, teachers oflen encowage students 10 think of silualions (make a
mental picture) that the new words could be used In some other cases, teachers
used synonym words or called some students stood in front of the class to act out
the new words, the rest of siudents guessed what it is Secondly, to develop
students” communication ability, English was the only language used in the classes,
so students are encouraged to ask their teacher or pairs to say it again or slow down
if they misunderstood Also, teachers created a (riondly study environment to deal
with cases of shy students, Moreover, students were free to make gestures or used
known words or phrases to express the unknown words Finally, for strategies of cnhaneHg the fluency of English gramnunar, teachers otten provided students with
short sample emails or letters at the end of each lesson, and required them to read,
find out the pattems of each sentence and write respective answer emails or letters
at home and then, submitted those for correction in the following lesson
The researcher came to all three classes explaining about the research, and asking for students’ voluntary participation Then, (he questionnaires were provided
to all students who agreed to participate in these classes After excluding some questionnaires which were nol filled in completely, 120 questionnaires were used as data for the study
The samples have some basic features such as: they are all Vietnamese cinployees al Honda Company, 32 arc female and 88 are male The period of time that they have worked at Honda is from one to ten years ‘'heir major is not English
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learning, Therefore, this is a chance for them to improve English skills; and the
researcher thik this may lead to employees” better motivation for leaming Lnelish Thus, explormg emplayees’ type of motivation and their use of language learning
stralegies is the focus of the study
3.3 Data collection methods
3.3.1 Data collection instrument
This study uses the data collection instrument that is a questionnaire
consisting of two major sections: one pertained to the participants’ use of T.I.Ss, and
the olher was about their motivation to leam English (See Appondix 1)
‘The first section in this study was to find out LLSs used by Vietnamese employees at Ilonda Company, ie answering research question number one The researcher adapted Oxford's Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL)
version 7.0, Oxford (1989) invented the SILL, based on her taxonomy, and the
version 7.0 is designed for speakers of other languages learning English as a second
ox foreign language Oxford’s instrument consisted of a background questionnaire and a list of LLSs Nevertheless, the part of background questionnaire by Oxford
was exchided in this paper because two studies’ objectives are different from each
other In her research, Oxford worked on variables mMAucuce on choice of LT.Ss by
university student, therefore, she included background questionnaire that she
mentioned some other eleraents such as mother tongue or English profiviency
Meanwlule, this study concentrated on the relationship between the use of
instructed LLSs and motivation for learning English, which was a smaller area
compared with Oxford’s As a resull, some quastions were not related to the situation of this study Besides, considering questions that concerning motivation in
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molivalion in the second section Apart from he background quustiormairs, this
study adopted the list of LLSs designed by Oxford as the main instrumentation that systematically covered four Lnglish skills of listening, reading, speaking and
writing and were completely concluded from her taxonomy of LLSs For ages, a
variety of scholars have demonstrated the efficiency of this strategy questionnaire
In Oxford’s point of view, answering a strategy questionnaire like the SILL may
ever help participants understand themselves more because they cart self-score and
have feedback right after completing (1992, p.33) Additionally, in his work, Lillis (1994) claimed that this Oxford’s piece of research is “perhaps the mast
comprehensive classification of learning strategies to date” Moreover, through a
number of tests, researches, and reviews, this Oxford’s product has been proven to
be high in reliability and validity (Oxford & Nytkos, 1989) Because the
parlicipanis aro in tton-Fnglish major and workers, (he researcher of this study
translated the SILL into Vietnamese with an aim to help participants can fully
understand every word in the SILT Te make sure, the author also piloted the questionnae with some students who arc now workers at Honda company The
resull was that no unsuitability was found Students in the pilot study also did not meet any difficulty in choosing the answers under the scale of five points As a result, this study used Oxford’s instrument for LLSs for the first section without any
changes
The firs scotion of the questionnaire adopted [ifly closed-ended questions, or more exactly, fifty statements used in the forms of rating scales in the SILL by Oxford (1989) with a role of measuring students’ level of employing English T.Ss There wore six parts A, B, C, D, E and F correspanding to Oxtord’s six types of LLSs: memory cognitive, compensation, metacognitive, affective, and social strategies rexpeclively, and they confained respeutively wine, fourteen, six, nine, six,
and six items Each group was composed of the statements mentioning strategies used
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were required to rate how truc these slaterents were for themselves on the scale of
five options: (1) zever or almost never true of me, (2) usually not true of me, 3) somewhat true of me, (1) usually true of me, (5) always or almost true of me The
respondent never uses that strategy if he or she chooses level 1, and it is the other
way round for the selection of level 5, Oxford (1989) also suggested the way to interpret the mean scores of the students’ self-ratings If the means are equal 4.5 ar
above (oul of 5), the strategies are always or almost always used: if from 3.5 to less
than 4.5, the strategies are usually used; if from 2.5 to less than 3.5, the frequency is
medium, and the strategies are sometimes used, if from 1.5 to less than 2.5, the
strategies generally are nol used, if Ihe mean is Tess than 1.5, the stratogics are never
or almost never used This scale was applied to interpret the results in this study as
well In additions, the author inchided an open-ended question as the question
number 51 of language learning stralogics thal respondents use but this study failed
to list (Gf any)
The second section of the questionnaire mcluded 19 statements as to the students’ motivation types ‘hese statements were divided imto four parts of integrative, instrumental, resultative, and intrinsic motivation In the first two
parts, the items were adapted from Gardner (1985) and Hemandez (2006) ‘he four items in the integrative motivation part mentioned leamers’ desires to know the
language, the English culture and the people especially who come from English
speaking regions, Conversely, the cight items of the instrumental motivation part
were about practical reasons to learn English, for example, the helpfulness of English
infraveling and workimg in oversea erviromment, in gelting better jobs, qualifications
Next, adjusted from the investigation of Madrid and Pérez (2001), three items of the
third part were designed to have information about learners’ resultative motivation
Particularly, these items helped to identify if the study results allect negatively or pesitively students” motivation and how strong the influences are Finally, intrinsic
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Besides, this section of the questionnaire also applied the 5-point Likert ranging fom (1) strongly disagree to (2) disagree, (3) neither, (A) agree and (5) strongly agree
Moreover, the way to interpret the mean scores into the degree to which the students
were motivated to learn English was made compatible with the system used for the frequency of LLS use presented above That is, if the mean scores were equal 4.5/5 or
Ingher, the students’ motivation was considered extremely high; if from 3.5 lo less
than 4.5, their motivation was high, if from 2.5 to less than 3.5, it was at medium level; if from 1.5 to less than 2.5, their motivation was low, if less than 1.5, the
students were nol snolivated at all, or extremely low
Data and results from all statements in two sections of the questionnaire are
used to find the answers for the research question three, that is the correlation (if any)
between learners’ use of instructed 1.1.88 and their motivation in English learmmng
3.3.2 Data collection procedure
The researcher conducted a pilot sludy with @ group of ten Vietnamese cmployecs at Honda Vietnam with an aum to discuss with this group and find out
and correct any mistakes, ambiguity and misunderstanding, so that these could be avoided in the full scale study Then, thanks to the research expert's opinion, the researcher finalized the questionnaire and administered it to the respondents
When delivering, the author helped the respondents to understand the topic
and objective of the questionnaire, Moreover, in order that participants could be fully
aware of what systems of options were used in the questionnaire, what they had to
read and decide on, where they could put the ticks and write their basic information to
complete the questionnaire, the overall guide was given m Vietnamese orally The
researcher dircetly observed the respondents’ process of filling the form and welcomed them to raise their voice if they did not understand anything or wanted to
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The r
cher also met some difficulies wn distributing questionmires A few
employees were not confident to fill in the questionnaire because they were not good
at English, and afraid that their responses would negatively affect the results of the
research Others seemed to just put ticks to finish without having a look at the
statements lo deal with this problem, the researcher had to emphasize what the
author needs are reliable results that did not concem respondents’ English proficiency
and explained in person bul briefly to them the importance of their answers Lo the
study and said “thank you" in advance
Finally, the uncompleted answers or those wilh seemingly ramdom ticks were excluded, and only the completed questionnaires were collected and counted ‘These
answers were used for data analysis
3.4, Data analysis procedure
After collecting questionnaire, the researcher carried out to analyze data in some steps Firstly, items were categorized according to related research question
Then, the data was converted into numerical form using the SPSS program version
16.0 in which all the variables (questions in the questionnaires) are ordinal
The range of language strategies used by the participants and their types off
motivation were investigated in the rating scales so that results collected could
auswer ihe first two research questions The frequency of each option was
calculated and displayed in percentage terms Data were illustrated by means of
tables and stacked bar charts
The last rescarch question is about (he correlation between tespondenis’ use
of LLS and their motivation ‘Io see the relationship between the frequency of using
LLS and their motivation, a Spearman-tho test, which is a test to find out the
correlation of ordinal variables, was employed Spearman’s corrclation is a statistical measure of the strength of a monotonic relationship between paired data
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of which the value is such that -1 <r <+1 The closer r is to +] or -1, the stronger
the monotonic relationship While positive values incheale a relationship such that
as values for one increase, values forthe other also increase, negative values indicate a relationship such that as values for one increase, values for the other decrease Ratner (2004) provided guidelines for interpreting the strength of correlation:
r = Q indicates no Linear relationship or no correlation, ie there is no tendency for one variable to either increase or decrease when the other increases
r values from more than 0 to less than +0.3 (from more than -0.3 to less than
0) indicate a weak correlation
t values from 0.3 to less than 0.7 (from more than -0.7 10 -0.3) midicaic a
absence of correlation, and the null hypothesis could be rejected (Rumsey, 2011) A
correlation with p value less than 0.05 is statistically significant In this thesis, a
small p value approved the likelihood of a monotonic correlation between LLS use
and the population’s motivation for leaming English and that correlation were
statistically significant
Finally, the data which were converted and presented in the previous step would be inlerproted By analyzing, the choice of groups of instructed L1.Ss and the
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molivalion are agreed by the biggest number of participant were also [ound oul and
dominant motivation types or the types with the highest reported level of motivation
were revealed As for the third research question, the values of r and p describe how
the respondents’ use of LLS and their motivation level related to each other It
means that whether the two related significantly or strongly to each other or not were found The relation may be between a group of LLSs and a type of motivation
Moreover, a comparison was made to find statistically significant and slrongest
relations Liventually, conclusions were drawn for each question in the questionnaire and each research question
Summary: This chaplor has showed the methodology applied in ihis research by
means of a questionnaire with elaborating questions for 120 Vietnamese employees
at Honda co In the chapter, the process from collecting data to analyzing them is
ompbasived on: voluntary sampling was used at first, then questionnaires were
distributed to the sample All participants’ confusions were clarified and their
suggestion was also laken inlo consideration to make an amendment to the questionnaue The questionnaire’s format and content were explamed carefully in
this chapter ‘he results collected were then transferred into numerical forms and
presented in charts and graphs This presemation of the methedology would help
make the easier way for studying, the next chapter
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