The Relationship between Students’ Motivation and Their Speaking Competence at a Vietnamese Foreign Language Center
Motivational factors are focused by many researchers and educators for years. However, most of them have focused in motivational types or status of learners’ motivation. This study was conducted to find out not only the types of students’ motivation but also the relationship between motivational factors and learners’ speaking result. What can be found after the study is that students at a Vietnamese foreign language centerwere both intrinsic and extrinsic motivated. Besides, the researchers did not have enough evidence to conclude the link between students’ motivations and their speaking result. However, the research led to an application for educators to invest more in teaching methodologies to maintain and improve students’ motivation thus achieve higher result in teaching and learning.
Keywords: motivation, speaking, intrinsic, extrinsic, implication, eudcation
